--- "Jonathan Rosenberg (Tabby's Place)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In an earlier message, Derick Rethans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said > > > Yes it is. Actually, you should specify the URL with the > > & yourself, like this: > > > > <a HREF="show_pic.php?pic=blah&caption=Some+Text"> > > > > otherwise it is not valid HTML. > > I understand that using '&' is technically not correct HTML. Actually, I think he might have meant XHTML. I'm not sure though. If your syntax looks like this: <a href="show_pic.php?pic=blah&caption=Some+Text"> Then your Web browser should interpret the & as an HTML entity and send a GET request (when you click the link) to: show_pic.php?pic=blah&caption=Some+Text Meaning, if show_pic.php receives $_GET["amp;caption"] as someone else mentioned, the browser has failed. > But I don't see how changing the '&' -> '&' solves my problem. I think your intuition has served you well. From your initial description, it sounds like your problm is that you write this: <a href="show_pic.php?pic=blah&caption=Some+Text"> And the browser sends a GET request to: show_pic.php?pic=blah&caption=Some+Text If this is true, this seems like an obvious browser bug to me. I agree with the other suggestions to beef up the debugging information you mail yourself, since I'm assuming you can't reproduce this on your own. Look at all of the $_GET variables, the user agent, and anything else you can think of. Oh, I assume your past emails have had timestamps. I would recommend looking through your Web server's access logs, and see if you can locate the request that returned an error. See if the URL being requested has the & in it (which it should not). > I'm missing something here. If you use '&' to separate > arguments on the query string, how do they get separated out for > access via $_GET? Because you are writing the & in the HTML source code. The browser should interpret this as & prior to sending the GET request to the Web server. Hope that helps. Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
