Help with URLENCODE

[artisticre]

I have the following code that pulls category names out of a database. When they click on them, it pulls the images based on that category. It works if the category name is only one word such as Animal but if it is two words like Sports & Games, I get the following

NewCindys/tshirts.html?category=Sports%20&%20Games

I am really new to PHP & MYSQL. Can someone give me an example on how to fix this?

thanks

<?PHP

$host = "localhost";
$username = "rcalthns"; // MySQL username
$password = "snickers"; // MySQL password

$database = "cindystshirts_com"; // MySQL database

$con = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);

$query = "SELECT distinct category FROM category, tshirts where category.catID = tshirts.catID";

$result = mysql_db_query($database, $query, $con);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { // fetches catergories from table
	print ("<A HREF='tshirts.html?category=$row[category]'>$row[category]</A>\n"); // prints the link
}

?>

[Natty_Dreadlock]

hi,
that's not a problem since in the url spaces etc. are encoded usin that % syntax (see http spec). PHP will automatically convert em when u retrieve the value of category using $_GET["category"] in your handling script tshirts.html.
hth