What is going on with Ampersand? &

Shoseki · 5 Feb 2007 at 11:58

Seriously, seems to act really weird.

As a piece of text, it is perfectly valid. However, in a web page, as a "non-standard" character, I convert it from & into & as I am supposed to.

So...

Internal to a database I have a category "Buns & Baps". I decide to convert the "&" into "&" and put that instead.

I'd expect when I post a link with "index.php?category=Buns&Baps" for it to return a value of "Buns%20&%20Baps" for the value of category, however, it seems that the standard behaviour for a browser is to parse the & into a & and then not do the reverse when passing it back, which means that "Baps" is converted into a new variable instead of the end of the first...

Why?? And how can you post "Buns & Baps" as a GET post index.php?category=Buns & Baps (obviously space will be replaced by %20).

EDIT : And just seen, even if using & it will STILL fail and become parsed as a new variable... just nuts.

EDIT : Sorry, my own stupid fault, should have checked up on standards for URLS (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt) and HTML (http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/tagpages/text.htm).

Simply converted the URL links to use hex codes to solve.

Beansprout · 5 Feb 2007 at 18:00

www.php.net/urlencode

Clarkey · 5 Feb 2007 at 20:04

buns and baps eh, what kind of website is this

Shoseki · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:56

Clarkey said:
buns and baps eh, what kind of website is this

It was an example

No need to over analyse why people give the examples they do. During my graphics course, the lecturer decided the Scene for our ray tracer, would be an enormous cylinder, with a sphere at the end, with two spheres at the bottom, then projected it onto a 10 meter screen in front of the class.

Beansprout · 6 Feb 2007 at 10:09

Shoseki said:
No need to over analyse why people give the examples they do.

Irony++

Shoseki · 6 Feb 2007 at 10:12

Beansprout said:
Irony++

Hey I am sure there is an enormous joke in there somewhere. Enormous.

Beansprout · 6 Feb 2007 at 10:29

Shoseki said:
Hey I am sure there is an enormous joke in there somewhere. Enormous.

You're doing it again! You're telling him off for over-analysing in a completely over-the-top way

There wasn't really any need for the put-down of "No need to over analyse why people give the examples they do."

robmiller · 6 Feb 2007 at 11:29

Shoseki said:
Hey I am sure there is an enormous joke in there somewhere. Enormous.

there's an enormous joke in my pants and it has your name on it babe

blighter · 7 Feb 2007 at 00:23

robmiller said:
there's an enormous joke in my pants and it has your name on it babe

Shoseki · 9 Feb 2007 at 15:35

robmiller said:
there's an enormous joke in my pants and it has your name on it babe

errr... I am te_h bloke.

Pull out pull out!