Jay Blanchard wrote:
I am having a problem with a an ampersand sign. I have a list of things on a page, in which one category is 'Oil & Gas'. I store it in the database as 'Oil & Gas'. When the category is clicked the query string shows just an ampersand, i.e.
'problem' 1 is the form in which you store the string in the DB. '& is html encoding - your DB is not a webpage ergo it doesn't need to contain html entities! that is to say - only make html entities of characters when you need to (i.e. after you have extracted the data from the db but before you send it to the browser) 'problem' 2 is that you need to urlencode the string 'Oil & Gas' when you want it to be the value of a url parameter; I have a sneaking suspcision that urlencoding the string 'Oil & Gas' will not do what you want exactly. you might consider using a different url parameter seperator character than the ampersand for this particular app. - the semicolon is often mentioned as a good alternative (it's even mentioned in the std php.ini)
"Filter=Process&FilterKey=Oil%20&%20Gas&Order=Application&Direction=ASC&comm ents=" and therefore just shows as an '&' and the query only sees 'Oil'. I guess that I am too tired to deal with this or the answer would come to mind immediately. Can someone drop kick me in the right direction? Thanks!
hope the kick didn't break anything. :-) have a nice weekend regardless!
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