[Resolved] Problems with "&"

[sinbad]

Hi,
i have a script that returns the search result in a table.
One column of the table is the name of a company and is returned as link:

<td><a href="engproductcheck.php?name=<?php echo $row_searchproducts['name']; ?>&id=<?php echo $row_searchproducts['mainengid']; ?>"target="_blank"><?php echo $row_searchproducts['name']; ?></a></td>

It works fine, except if a name of a company contains "&".

any ideas please?

[tsinka]

Hi,

use the urlencode function on the variables used as GET parameters. The & breaks the GET parameters.

Thomas

[sinbad]

Hi tsinka,

Thanks for replying

Here is the GET parameters i have:
$name = $GET['name'];
$id = $GET['id'];

How can i use the url_encode() with the GET function ?

[tsinka]

Sorry,

I don't know why I wrote GET ... I meant row variables, something like ...

<?php echo urlencode($row_searchproducts['name']); ?>

Thomas

[sinbad]

Thankyou tsinka,
but you are absolutely right with GET. This little nasty "&" breaks the GET.

It works magic now.
Thankyou

Sinbad