Encoding URLs

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I am trying to validate my website and I am getting errors on some apersands (&). Would encodeurl() help me fix this problem or how would I fix any problems with URLs.

iSeriesCodePoet
iSeries Programmer/Lawson Software Administrator

http://www.koldark.net

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=2483&t=1

 

[Vragabond]

This is not a PHP question. With PHP you would just need to output correct code that would validate. W3 standards tell you how to write ampersands on the page and have them validate. Instead of:

echo '&';
echo '<a href="page.php?var1=1&var2=2">';

do

echo '&';
echo '<a href="page.php?var1=1&amp;var2=2">';

This will work in all browsers and validate as well.

 

[ericbrunson]

There is a function in PHP called htmlentities() that will convert all characters in a string that have an html entity into that entity. Check the manual.

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

I am getting links from del.icio.us and parsing that RSS document and putting the links on my site. Not all of the links are XHTML valid. I will take a look at the htmlentities() and see if that works for me.

iSeriesCodePoet
iSeries Programmer/Lawson Software Administrator

http://www.koldark.net

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=2483&t=1

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

htmlentities() did exactly what I wanted, thanks!

iSeriesCodePoet
iSeries Programmer/Lawson Software Administrator

http://www.koldark.net

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=2483&t=1

 

[Olavxxx]

btw. I know you already fixed your problem, but since you asked for some way to encode urls, a function is called

urlencode()

ref.:

http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

ps. if you are to read about it, please read the entire page and some of the examples!

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster