[thelist] PHP encoding &s in a URL

[fstorr]

Hi all

This should be simple, but for the life of me...

I've got a MySQL db and am running PHP.  I'm trying to get a link like:

<a href="results?q=D&T">D&T</a>

to pull the required link from my db (the term it should select is D&T).

I've tried encoding that first & in the URL with htmlspecialchars, 
urlencode, htmlentities, but to no avail.  I've also tried not encoding 
it.  I've tried changing the entry into the db from D&T to D&amp;T, but 
that doesn't want to work either.  If I echo out the $_GET, it only 
wants to pass the "D" and nothing else, unless I use urlencode which 
gives me D&T but doesn't get the result from the db (I get nothing as 
opposed to the wrong record).

What's the correct way to encode that sucker?!

Regards

Francis