PHP and less than and greater than signs

[Anon]

Hello,

This sounds very strange but I was trying to build a string like below:

$ToYou = $Row["FirstName"] . " " . $Row["LastName"] . " " . chr(60) . $Row["Email"] . chr(62);

echo($ToYou);

It would be used as the "TO:" argument for the mail() function.

The problem is that the moment I add the "<" and ">" characters the string will not build up correctly and I know the code is OK.

It builds up to the less than character.
As soon as I remove those characters, the string is created properly.

I know that I can use only the Email Address, but I want to have the name in there as well.

Did anybody experience a similar situation?

If yes, is there a solution to solve this?

Thanks

[yohost]

Do a \"View Source\" on your output. I\'ll bet the string is created just fine, but when viewed in HTML the less/greater characters are interpreted as an HTML tag so the email address is hidden.

Try this:
echo HTMLSpecialChars($ToYou);