Ampersands in links...

xhtml compliancy breaks apple.php?foo=1&bar=3

[lunarboy1]

<a href="apple.php?foo=1&bar=3>asdf</a> gives validator errors, but using &amp; or &#38; entities for the ampersand the variables don't seem to exist to my php. What's going on? How can I fix this and get compliancy?

[DrDoc]

Seems like you've missed the closing quote ;)

<a href="apple.php?foo=1&amp;bar=3">asdf</a>

[lunarboy1]

okay, typo on the original post, my fault. But still, when I click the link containing &amp; in IE 6.0 or Mozilla 1.6, the link works, but the variables don't seem to parse correctly, almost as if they weren't even there to begin with.

[coopster]

Perhaps you need to urlencode [php.net] the variables in your query string?

[DrDoc]

&amp; should work...
The browser translates it to & before sending the query string, so the problem must be something else. Unless, of course, the query string is not submitted by a browser :)

[lunarboy1]

okay, sorry about this, but i was having the most frustrating time with this and now i don't know why it works, but it does with the &amp;. I tried it hundreds of times before, but somehow it's working now. I fixed a minor error in my php and urlencode will help out a lot in the future.

I heard many people were having problems with this before and I probably didn't look into it as much as I should have at the beginning, sorry.

Brian