parsing a variable with spaces as a link

[padders]

Is there any way to pass a variable with spaces in it as a link (ie GET data). For example

www.domain.com/review.php?title=and then he said

sort of thing.

I can't do any PHP or anything like that with the link unfortunatly, a unchangeable script generates the link.

It works without doing anything in IE5 but not Netscape 4. Any ideas?

[freakysid]

I would have thought that any browser IE, NS4.*, et al, would send that as:

www.domain.com/review.php?title=and%20then%20he%20said

And then you can use urldecode() or rawurldecode() to put the white spaces back into the string in your script. I can never remember the difference between those two functions, but I seem to use rawurlencode and rawurldecode for some reason?

[padders]

nope, unfortunatly NS4 really does not do this. try clicking on this link with NS4

http://www.sitepointforums.com/index...hen he shouted and see what happens

[Mark T.]

Yep, the link works for me...

[padders]

Yes, the link works but does it put
%20
between the words. If not, as it dosen't in NS4 for me, only the first word of the variable title is accessible from the PHP script.

[Mark T.]

It does put %20 between the words, meaning the whole phrase is accessable as being the keyword title. I am using IE 5.5 of 6.0 by the way, I can't tell since it loads to quickly !

[freddydoesphp]

Chris just run your variable through urlencode() or rawurlencode() before appending it to the query string.

$var = urlencode($var); //puts %20 in
//or
$var = rawurlencode($var); //puts + in 

If you hard coding the link just put them in there in place of the spaces.