replaceing ampersands with &amp; before they are outputted..

TimTimTimma

Here is the thing, today I managed to make my CMS Xhtml VALID! W00h00! I got it it works, but only when u save the content and have it check via remote file. I created a nice little function on the site that will stop all header() forwards when a variable is set, this works and all nicely. BUT! since the site is using sessions, php automatically adds &PHPSESSID=whatever at the end of every link. and you can not use regular ampersands (&) in url's. you have to use & is there anyway I can find these ampersands before they are published and replace them with & code? Or better yet is there a way to just get rid of the &PHPSESSID=whatever all together ?

rachel2004

What's the problem with using & ? Maybe I didn't understand the problem or if you can describe again what you've done and how it's been failing. Browers will silently display HTML entities as what we expect to find (just as this bulletin board does).

TimTimTimma

ok...lets say I have a link

http://whatever.com/file.php?find=this&that=that

if I visit a page for the first time and it has sessions php will add "&PHPSESSID=53dg4sh56hj465f46sth74ds646zsre or something of that nature at the end of the link so it displays

http://whatever.com/file.php?find=this&that=that&PHPSESSID=d6gd54g96sdf48g9sd54fg9s8d7hys6fds

i need to change the "&PHPSESSID" that php automatically adds at the end of each url to "&PHPSESSID" but how do I do that?

drew010

you will want to change the php.ini value arg_separator.output to &

TimTimTimma

ini_set("arg_separator.output", "&amp");

would that do the trick?

EDIT:

Thank you very much that did the trick just great :-)