URL encode issue

[aaashah1982]

I have a a file search_results.html.In this the user can enter a search keyword like 'engineer ' and find out about engineers in his area who are looking for jobs .

Now a list of engineers is displayed in a table

Now when the location tab is clicked on the search results all the people sorted by location are seen ...kinda like monster

My questions when i click on the location I need to pass the varialbe from the first html file ie keyword and the location from the second file ...
I know it can be done with url encode but how ....
how do i write the code and then decode ....


please provide sample

[XtrEM3]

urlencode and urldecode

$myString = "THIS ENGINEER HAS MANY! <CHAR>ACTER'S THAT ARE NOT SAFE FOR TEH URLZZZ";
$urlEncodedText = urlencode($myString);
$myLink = '<a href="/mypage.php?engineerName=' . $urlEncodedText . '">' . $myString . '</a>';
echo 'These should be equal: ';
echo $myString;
echo ' = ';
echo urldecode($urlEncodedText); 

[aaashah1982]

urlencode and urldecode

$myString = "THIS ENGINEER HAS MANY! <CHAR>ACTER'S THAT ARE NOT SAFE FOR TEH URLZZZ";
$urlEncodedText = urlencode($myString);
$myLink = '<a href="/mypage.php?engineerName=' . $urlEncodedText . '">' . $myString . '</a>';
echo 'These should be equal: ';
echo $myString;
echo ' = ';
echo urldecode($urlEncodedText); 

My question is how that you have used engineerName in the link can you use this variable in the mypage.php file ....if yes how to access it