On 8 Jan 2003, at 12:08, Paul DuBois wrote: > You must perform the conversion yourself, displaying the URL both > as the href atttribute and body text of an <a> tag. Don't forget > to URL-encode it for use in the attribute, and HTML-encode it for > use in the body text.
I think Paul meant to say you should HTML-encode it for both the HREF value and the link text. URL-encoding is for *parameters* that are going to become part of a URL. You wouldn't URL-encode a whole URL (unless you were passing it as a parameter in another URL -- perhaps the URL of a redirection script). A URL-encoded URL wouldn't work as a link, since the slashes would have been changed to '%2F', among other things. The HTML-encoding is only necessary if the URL could contain an ampersand (or less-than, greater-than, or quote, but URLs aren't supposed to have those characters in them). [Filter fodder: SQL] -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tobacco Documents Online http://tobaccodocuments.org Phone 202-667-6653 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
