Question

i have a dropdown as below,

<select name="pid" onchange="getReport(this.value)">
<option>Select a PID:</option>
<option value="SFP-GE-S">SFP-GE-S</option>
<option value="SFP-OC12-MM">SFP-OC12-MM</option>
<option value="SFP-OC3-MM">SFP-OC3-MM</option>
<option value="XENPAK-10GB-LR+">XENPAK-10GB-LR+</option>
<option value="XENPAK-10GB-SR">XENPAK-10GB-SR</option>
</select>

m passing the selected value to my send.php via ajax call via GET ie im calling send.php?pid=value . But wen i select “XENPAK-10GB-LR+” option its only passing on as “XENPAK-10GB-LR ” and the + symbol is not there due to which my DB query is going wrong. Can someone help over come this problem…

Answer 1

+ in a URL is a special character representing a space. You need to URL encode the value before you concatenate it into a URL.