Query String....

[Anon]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a little problem I am having?

I have a normal HTML page with a series of links on it; each pointing to a PHP file and supplying full sentence parameters via the query string. For example:

<a href="page.php?message=Hello, this is a message passed using the query string">Link</a>

Firstly, I know that this will only work with IE, not Netscape. Also, it means that if I have any speech marks they will be escaped. This means that when a message is printed to the user, it does not look very good in IE and does not work in Netscape.

How can I pass the parameters so that the full text is displayed in Netscape? Also, how can I remove the \s (used to escape) from the string before printing it to the user?

I have seen examples of how to do this using PHP on the page with the links, but I cannot use PHP, only HTML.... is there anyway of doing this using Javascript? And will I have to use forms, because I would like to just have links........

Thanks,
Nick

[Anon]

Well, what you need to do is url-encode the string so that it is a string of characters with a bunch of other encoded http strings.

You can use the php function urlencode(); to do this. Go here for more info:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

-Josh B