String returned from forms and such

Good afternoon.

I'm having a problem handling strings with spaces being passed from a form
by HREF to a PHP program.

Example:

<A HREF="buttons.php?state_name=New Mexico">button code</A>

When the 'New Mexico' gets to phpinfo, it says the string is 'New+Mexico'
and that's not what I need. I used htmlspecialchars to add the %20 to the
string but didn't get it. What am I doing wrong or missing??

Any help is VERY appreciated!!

Robin 'Sparky' Kopetzky
Black Mesa Computers/Internet Service
Grants, NM 87020

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:19:23 -0700, you wrote:

>When the 'New Mexico' gets to phpinfo, it says the string is 'New+Mexico'
>and that's not what I need. I used htmlspecialchars to add the %20 to the
>string but didn't get it. What am I doing wrong or missing??

That sounds like the behaviour of urlencode, not htmlspecialchars.

Try rawurlencode.

BTW, there is a urldecode function...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.url.php