http get vars and spaces

is there an easy why to handle spaces in get var strings?

like blah/script.php?name=this has spaces

what is the best way to deal with this, I looked at html special chars but that looks like the & to $amp etc.

What shopuld I use presumably to make the spaces %20, I could manually do this, I think the reason why it is not processing it like it does on a normal web page is that I am including the file.

Thanks

Use urlencode() and then urldecode() to get it back....

That's the one!!!!

Thanks you

works perfectly, don't even have to mess with them to convert them back, it does it itself!

Thanks for the pointer, I still have lots to learn.

Thanks again

justo to note: beside the "%20" encoding of space, u can use "+" to encode space, ie if u write url by hand (and don't generate it from php code):

http://example.com/script.php??query=this+doesnt++or+does+it