Converting header info variables to text

[Anon]

When passing a variable ($user_name) to a Form using header redirection, and trying to display it in a text box, it gets chopped at the first %.

For example, "John%20Jones" simply becomes "John" in the Form text box (using the VALUE=<? $user_name ?> construct).

Does anyone know of a PHP conversion function to correctly translate this into "John Jones" ?

[toma42]

Your HTML is bad. Read up on how to code HTML to solve your problem.

hint: quotes are good.

[Anon]

Nothing in any of my HTML books covers this PHP question of redirection. So I will build my own function to take care of this.

Sorry, but I did not understand your hint either. Thanks anyway.

[Anon]

in regards to
VALUE=<? $user_name ?>

you should echo
VALUE='<? $user_name ?>'

note the quotes ' (you can use double quotes too, but you would need to escape them lik \" )

cheers
nilesh