Question

When I type this:

<form method="post"  action="../Thread/thread.php?threadID=".<?php echo $threadID; ?>."&page=".<?php echo $page; ?> > 

I get this:

http://localhost/PoliticalForum/Thread/thread.php?threadID=

how can I encode the variables into the url to avoid such mistakes?

Answer 1

 echo('<form method="post"  action="../Thread/thread.php?threadID=' . $threadID . '&page='  . $page . '">'); 

You had problem with your quotes.

Edit:

$url = sprintf("../Thread/thread.php?threadID=%1s&page=%2s",$threadID,$page);
echo('<form method="post"  action="'.$url .'">'); 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php