problem with processing quotes

[Anon]

I am trying to do the following:

$dburl = "http://www.somehost.com/log.php?totable=stats&ip=$ip&referer=$referer";
$somedata = @file($dburl);

the $referer variable contains the page that the user was refered from, the problem is that when it is from a search engine and contains the " quote character, then it only processes upto that quote. I have tried doing something like:
$referer = htmlspecialchars($referer);
before the above code, but it still doesnt work..

How can i fix this problem?

[Anon]

Hi

Just use
$referer = str_replace(""","VALUE",$referer);

Just replace VALUE with anything you want like the value for the quote in ASCII or whatever you like, hope it help.