Posted by Jack Jackson on 06/05/05 17:17

Thanks!

Leon Poon wrote:
> The simplest way to make sure everything work well regardless of what
> the values are:
>
> <?
> $url = "somepage.php?var1=".urlencode($var1)."&var2=".urlencode($var2);
> echo "<a href=\"".htmlspecialchars($url)."\">";
> ?>
>
> htmlspecialchars() changes characters '&', '"', ''', '<', '>' into the
> HTML equivilant. And yup, you should do this for all *ML pages as long
> as the thing being printed is not part of the mark-up syntax.
>
>
>
> Jack Jackson wrote:>
>
>> Rory Browne wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/4/05, Jack Jackson <jackson.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Rory
>>>>
>>>> Rory Browne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think you have the idea. The &'s are used to seperate the various
>>>>> variables. If you want to set $p to something like 'Tom & Jerry' then
>>>>> personally I'd do something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?php
>>>>>
>>>>> $p = "Tom & Jerry";
>>>>> $s = "Cat & Mouse";
>>>>> printf("<a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?p=%s&s=%s", urlencode($p),
>>>>> urlencode($s));
>>>>>
>>>>> ?>
>>>>>
>>>> That's nice. To get more specific (because my code varies a bit from
>>>> yours and I don't wanna mess up the ) and ' and " s:
>>>> $p and $c are actually row ID numbers so up to 3 digits. So for
>>>> example if
>>>>
>>>> $p=1
>>>> $c=32
>>>>
>>>> I was wanting to see a URL of
>>>>
>>>> http://foo.com?r=1&c=32
>>>>
>>>
>>> In that case, you can simply echo them out, once you're sure that $r,
>>> and $c are actually integers.
>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention that above I did $r = intval($_GET[r])
>>
>> !
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, everyone!
>>
>>> echo "<a href='http://foo.com?r=$r&c=$c'>whatever</a>"
>>>
>>> if not(sure they're integers, you could always
>>> printf("<a href=\"http://foo.com?r=%d&c=%d\">whatever</a>", $r, $c);
>>>
>>> Alternatively you could $r = (int)$r;
>>>
>>> or echo "<a href='http://foo.com?r=" . (int)$r . "&c=" . (int)$c .
>>> "'>whatever</a>";
>>>
>>> There's more than one way to do it.......
>>>
>>>> so was this the way to go?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> //Make a thumbnail table of contents to display in the left sidebar
>>>>
>>>> while ($sidebar = mysql_fetch_assoc($sidebar_result)) {
>>>> $sidebar_thumbnails[] = "<a class='img-link'
>>>> href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?p=%p&c={$sidebar['art_id']},
>>>> urlencode($p)'
>>>> title=\"{$sidebar['art_title']}\"><img class='sidebar-img'
>>>> src='{$image_dir}{$sidebar['art_thumbnail']}' width='50' height='60'
>>>> border='0' alt=\"{$sidebar['art_title']}\" /></a>";
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/4/05, Jack Jackson <jackson.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I want to make a link to a URL which includes some GETs can I
>>>>>> just do:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <a href='{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}?p={$p}&c={$s}' ... etc etc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or must I escape the ampersand somehow?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA,
>>>>>> --Jack
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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