passing variable help, special characters

[michaelowen]

Hello everyone,

You helped me through an issue last week, and I am stuck again....

I need to have a user enter a teamname, pass that name to the database (verify username/password) and then return a form (with the name automatically filled in). Problem is that it's truncating when it hits special characters. How do i fix this?

here is how i pass to the form:

header("Location: [url]http://www..........php[/url]
teamname=".$teamname."");

And here is the call on the 2nd page:

Verify Team Name (check box):
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="teamname" value="<?php echo $teamname ?>">
<b><?php echo $teamname ?></b>

How do i fix this to recognize special characters (e.g. anything typed)?

-Michael

[erikwebb]

If you are using a GET-style variable, did you use urlencode() before putting it in the URL?

[michaelowen]

Anybody?

Should i create a general search/replace script that targets the most common 4 or 5 special characters, and replaces them with " ".

-Michael

[laserlight]

erikwebb gave a possible solution, to use urlencode() or rawurlencode()

[bad76]

Try to look this

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?postid=10377813#post10377848