Problems W/ Script Receiving Variable

[Anon]

Ok, I have a search engine Php interface with receive the search as the variable Q

So if someone types in "Word1 Word2 Word3" the web based form would process it into search.php?Q=word1+word2+word3

Now the problem, when the variable is outputted my search.php it comes out as "Word1" because of the + being an operator, it disregards the rest of the search words, so only 1 word will work. I simply need to find a way to make search.php recognize the variable $Q as nothing but characters, so that the +'s will be entered into the variable and outputted as the text character instead of the script parsing them as an operator.

Any help would be much obliged.

[nashirak]

If I get you corectly you just want your script to know that + s are charaters and not some operation... right? If that is all you can always use the urlencode() funtion. This will convert all characters like that into something that wont get confused as an operator or just look up the hexidecimal representation: + would be 2B or

search.php?Q=word1%2Bword2%2Bword3

Hope that Helps!

[Anon]

You are incorrect in your understanding of how PHP handles form input.

PHP properly transforms the string, which was encoded automatically by the browser, back into its original form.

search.php?Q=word1+word2+word3
$HTTP_GET_VARS['Q'] will contain
"word1 word2 word3"