Doesn't print after "&"!!

[Anon]

In my script I have this:

<? echo $STRING; ?>

And in the url i write:
script.php?STRING=SOMETEXTHERE&THATSIT

When I open the page all I see is "SOMETEXTHERE". I see nothing after and including "&". I tried to escape it but that doesnt work.

Does anyone know what's the problem?

[Anon]

The problem is that the & sign is used to seperate arguments in the get statement of your URL (after the question mark). Basically you can not have an & sign in your url as part of an incoming string.

What you need to do is use a %26 in the URL wherever you have an & sign (%26 is the hex ascii number for &).

So you would call
script.php?STRING=SOMETEXTHERE%26THATSIT

And you should get what you are looking for.

Hope this helps.

-Josh

[hometoast]

And you dont have to manually figure out the %26.. use the urlencode() function.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

[Anon]

That can't help because I want to have this:

<a href="www.php.net?var=2&var2=7">You came from here</a>

However thad doesn't work. The url in my script stops at "&".

[Anon]

I don't understand what exactly you want. Sorry 🙁