URL with &

[Anon]

I have this piece of code in one of my HTML/PHP pages.

<a href=\"coups_cat.php?catname=$catname\"><BR>$currentrow<BR><b>$catname</b></a>

Its a URL that uses a field in the database ($catname) to link to another php file that executes a SQL SELECT based on the contents of the previous field ($catname). The problem is that some of the values of that field have the & sign, which doesn't work in a URL.

I am sure there is a function to deal with this, but I am new to PHP and don't have a clue what it would be.

Does anyone know?

[umbra]

try "<a href=\"coups_cat.php?catname=".urlencode(stripslashes($catname))."\"><BR>$currentrow<BR>".stripslashes($catname)."</a>".
Use urlencode($var) to encode special chars, and stripslashes on variables obtained from the url's query string.

[Anon]

Thank you, that worked like a charm.