value is Tourism & Hotels
url?catagory=Tourism%20&%20Hotels&maincateg=Tourism%20&%20Hotels
if i call that catagory to another page
$category = $_GET['catagory'];
and in second page i displayed that value
echo $category;
but this showing only Tourism and the remaining words r gone.i want to display Tourism & Hotels with special char
You should escape an & with & or you can try urlencode()
is it correct
echo encode($category);
i used this one but its not working
What does encode do?
oh sry that is urlencode() only
If you encode it, remember to encode your values before building the querystring. If you try to urlencode after building the complete querystring, you'll end up encoding the '&' querystring-pair separator and the '=' too.
If the category is "Tourism & Hotels"
then encode, e.g.
$raw = "Tourism & Hotels";
$enc = urlencode($raw);
$url = '?category=' . $enc . '&maincateg=' . $enc;
//then
<a href="<?php echo $url;?>"><?php echo $raw;?></a>
So, test something like this...
<?php
if($_GET)
{
echo "<pre>";
print_r($_GET);
echo "</pre>";
}
$raw = "Tourism & Hotels";
$enc = urlencode($raw);
$url = '?category=' . $enc . '&maincateg=' . $enc;
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<a href="<?php echo $url;?>"><?php echo $raw;?></a>
</body>
</html>
Not sure if that's what you want though.
Thanks its working
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