passing variables via url

[ronjon]

hello.

i need help.

im trying to pass a variable via url and its not quite working right.

heres my code:

THE FILE PASSING THE VARIABLE:

<a href="categorypages/results.php?Pitemnum='test'">barware</a></br>

im not sure...but ... i htink its worth mentioning that the code above is not within the php tags.

HERES THE FILE RECIEVING:

<?
session_start();
header ("Cache control: private"); //IE fix
echo $Pitemnum;
?>

hers what im getting as output

\'test\'

whats up with that???? where did the slashes and apostrophes come from???

thanks in advance.
ron

[LordShryku]

Take the single quotes out unless you literally want single quotes, in which case, you should [man]urlencode[/man] it. The slashes are because of magic_quotes_gpc, which automatically adds slashes to what needs to be escaped. You can remove them with [man]stripslashes[/man].

[ronjon]

the O\ thing just added an "O\ " to the oiutput... but... i took out the apostrophes..and it turned out ok. gosh... i could have sworn i tried takign the '' out... i gues i didnt refresh the page right. regardless... you saved my life again. thank you very much sir.