Commas in links

pamelamitter

I am new at using PHP. I know ASP and HTML. I am creating a link and then it has text. I want a comma to display in the text but not sure how to do it. If I put the comma it will not show the rest of my text.

=link [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/bni/EDqsandas.pdf,Frequently Asked Questions - updated by CMS on August 19, 2005]
I want the comma after the 19 but then it will not dispay the comman or the 2005. Thanks

devinemke

[man]urlencode[/man]
[man]urldecode[/man]

pamelamitter

Thank you for the information. I am not passing any variables. I am just trying to type a date in the title for the URL. Like sept 5, 2005. It will not display anything after the comma. Thanks

devinemke

pamelamitter wrote:
I am not passing any variables.

regardless of how you are putting data onto the URL, it still needs to be [man]urlencode[/man]d. you can either do it yourself or have PHP do it for you. if you wish to do it yourself, the HEX code for the comma is "%2C" but honestly why would you want to do this manually if you can have PHP do it for you.

pamelamitter

Thank you again. I am still having problems. Below is the code I am using
=block.fc [=strong{color:red;} [SEPTEMBER 1, 2005 UPDATE]<ol></ol> <ul><li>=link [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/bni/EDqsandas.pdf,Frequently Asked Questions - updated by CMS on August 19 2005), ] <li>=link [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/bni, Link to CMS Site for Generic and Detailed Notices - Now Includes MS Word Versions] <li>=link [/inc/pdf/bipa_open-forum-teleconf.doc, VHQC BIPA Teleconference - September 27 2005 at 2:00 pm] </li></ul><ol></ol>=ital [We continue to await further direction from CMS regarding outstanding issues that have yet to be addressed on this Web site. We will continue to update this Web site as information becomes available.]

I want a comma after it says August 19, 2005. thanks

wilku

Devinemke has given you the answer. Use it like this

<a href=
<?php
echo urlencode("http://www.cms.hhs.gov/medicare/bni....pdf,Frequently Asked Questions - updated by CMS on August 19, 2005");
?>
Whatever</a>

What you posted isn't php code. What is that?