Piet from South Africa wrote:

>i have the following problem.
>
>when i href like this
>
> <a href="nextpage.php?name=$name">
>
>and the name contains a & sign, it does not post it to the next page.
>
>if the name is bed&breakfast it stops at bed.
>  
>
Because '&' is a special character in URL, you need to escape it by
urlencode it first before pass it, i.e.

$encodename = urlencode($name);

  <a href="nextpage.php?name=$encodename">

Best

Bao

>Can anyone tell me how to do this.
>
>  
>

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