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> Hi Felipe.
> First of all... the lacking double-quotes at the end ot the string! So,
the
> right way is:
> header("Location: validation.php?name=$name&mail=$mail&message=$message");
> This line works well if...
>
> Regarding your "question", the problem is in a uncorrect usage of the
> variables while composing the Location string. Follow me:
>
> 1. consider you have a name composed of 2 or more "words". For instance:
> $name="Felipe Lorente"; (but the same for $mail and $message).
> When expading/substituting $name in the "header" function you have exactly
> this:
> header("Location: validation.php?name=Felipe Lorente&mail.....
> As you can see the string has a "blank" space inside, so PHP thinks the
> string ends to "Felipe", avoiding the rest!!!
>
> 2. it's a normal behaviour for PHP :-)
>
> 3.the correct syntax when working with URLs is to transform "normal
values"
> in "url-encoded values". That is to translate in a understandable way the
> strings passed as URLs to a browser (in fact, when you call a Location,
it's
> the same as you type that URL directly in the browser). So before calling
> Header("Location... make the following:
> $name=urlencode($name);
> $message=urlencode($message);
> ...
> This function will transform all "strange" character in the string in
> special values (i.e., "Felice Lorente" becomes "Felipe+Morente". As you
can
> see not more 2 differents words but just ONE!!!
>
> 4. While retrieving urlencoded values from validation.php, you must
> (obviously :-) url-decode these values. So in validation.php before using
> URL-passed params you have to:
> $name=urldecode($name)
> $message=urldecode($message)
> ...
>
> I hope these notes can help you.
>
>
> Bye
> --
> Francesco
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Ok, thanks, now it is working perfectly. I didnt know the urlencode
function.
Regards,
Felipe.
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