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Hi All,

I am processing a form that includes address info. If the user fills out the form and (address2) has an apartment number that they enter like:

#1522

I have trouble later where I might contruct a link such as:

header("location: contact.php?address1=$address1&address2=$address2&city=$city&state=$state");

The link creates fine, but processing on the otherside where I am trying to get the data back stops after encountering the # sysmbol. The code I have to get the data from the link is:

if(isset($_GET["address2"])) $address2 = $_GET["address2"]; else $address2 = "";

The address2 field is empty as are all the fields that come after it in the process. Any ideas what to do to allow the # symbol?

Thanks.

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Member Avatar for andym67

I don't understand. The user enters the # sign into the field and my HEADER: then uses it. Is there a way to surround it with quotes etc in my code to somehow encode it or something.

I am not understanding your suggestion. Thanks.!

Member Avatar for somedude3488

urlencode()

Look it up.

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The text after a # in a querystring is taken to be an anchor or bookmark. You should encode the data before passing it to a querystring.

Use urlencode and htmlentities:

$q_string = 'address1=' . urlencode($address1) . '&address2=' . urlencode($address2) . '&city=' . urlencode($city) . '&state=' . urlencode($state);
header( 'Location: contact.php?' . htmlentities($q_string));

//EDIT
sorry KK, you posted as I was typing

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Member Avatar for andym67

urlencode()

Look it up.

I wasn't sure what I needed to look up or I would have done so. As I am very new to PHP I didn't know the urlencode() existed.

But, thank you very much as that was what I needed. It works wonderfully. I appreciate your help.

Member Avatar for andym67

Very helpful - Thanks.!!! Didn't know about urlencode()

Member Avatar for edwinhermann

As ardav says, you need urlencode, but you should not use htmlentities. YOu only use htmlentities when you are outputting HTML. The header is not HTML - it's part of the underlying HTTP protocol.

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Yes, right enough, I cobbled the code from a cgi script. No need for h.e.

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