Posted by Erwin Moller on 02/27/06 13:26

universalbitmapper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This exercise (From PAM525Web Development) asks me to display a table
> of reviews, then sort the reviews depending on which column heading is
> clicked.
>
> I can't find how to write this line:
>
> <th><a
>
href=movie_details03.php?movie_id=$movie_id&coll_sort=\"review_date\">"Date
> of Review"</th>
>
> in this bit of code:
>
> $review_table_headings=<<<EOD
> <tr>
> <th><a
>
href=movie_details03.php?movie_id=$movie_id&coll_sort=\"review_date\">"Date
> of Review"</th>
> <th>Review Title</th>
> <th>Reviewer Name</th>
> <th>Movie Review Comments</th>
> <th>Ratings</th>
> </tr>
> EOD;
>
> The coll_sort variable is extracted by a GET


Hi,

You don't want " or ' in your url.
use urlencode to pass them around safely.
So try:
<?
$myUrl = "movie_detailso3.php";

// assuming $movie_id is a number, you do not need urlencoding
$myUrl .= "?movie_id=".$movie_id;

// assuming coll_sort need encoding:
$myUrl .= "&amp;coll_sort=".urlencode("revie_date");
?>
<a href="<?= $myUrl ?>">sort on review date</a>

Now receive it like:
$sortorder = $_GET["coll_sort"];

Also note the &amp; instead of &. It was not your problem, but the &amp; is
better, according to W3C.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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