passing values in a a href link

[Anon]

Hi,
I need to pass values from one page to another using the <a href=""></a> tag. This works fine when :
$val1 = "this";
$val2 = "that";
<a href ="page.php?val1=$val1&val2=$val2"> link </a>

so the link is page.php?val1=this&val2=that

but if val1="this&that"; or "this that"
it fails because of the & and blank space in the string.

How do i get around this ?

[Anon]

there's a function called htmlspecialchars() that should help you out...

[mistcat]

or more to the point:
you could use urlencode...
=)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

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