Re: [PHP] Fwd: Parsing and using URL variables

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Lynch
Your PHP is fine. Your URL sucks. :-) You can't have spaces in the data, nor / nor all kinds of stuff. Which is why you should ALWAYS call: http://php.net/urlencode on data before you cram it into a URL. *then*, if you are putting that URL into HTML for a person to click on, you need to make it

Re: [PHP] Fwd: Parsing and using URL variables

2006-10-20 Thread Jochem Maas
looks like your having fun ... but before you go building & using something that is going to cause you major security headaches go to this site and read, read, read: http://phpsec.org/ and remember NEVER TRUST USER INPUT (or data from *any* outside source); currently your example will pr

[PHP] Fwd: Parsing and using URL variables

2006-10-20 Thread andrew newman
-- Forwarded message -- From: andrew newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 20, 2006 2:30 PM Subject: Parsing and using URL variables To: php-general-digest@lists.php.net Hello I am very new to PHP and I am trying to parse the values of variables from a URL into a web page. to bui