Have you tried putting the curly braces around the variable call?

“personnel-search?type={$term->tid}”

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php, scroll down to Variable Parsing.

Jason

From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Neil Coghlan
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:18 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] slight problem with encoding

no solutions for this?? I've tried everything I can think of...escaping the characters, wrapping them in all sorts of other characters, but no luck.

----- Original Message -----

From: Neil Coghlan

To: support@drupal.org

Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:32 AM

Subject: slight problem with encoding

I have the following php snippet giving me a list of taxonomy terms for a certain vocab and certain content type.

<?php
$vid = 4;
$items = array();
$type = manager;
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid);
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    $count = db_result(db_query("SELECT COUNT(term_node.nid) FROM {term_node} JOIN {node} ON node.nid = term_node.nid WHERE node.type = '%s' AND tid = %d", $type, $term->tid));
    $items[] = l($term->name, "personnel-search?type=$term->tid") . " ($count)";
}
if ( count($items) ) {  print theme('item_list', $items);}
?>

the problem is in the bolded line, specifically the question mark and equal sign. I get a taxonomy list like this:

retail (3)

accounts (2)

IT (1)

when I hover over these, the links look perfect down in the status bar, but when I click on them, they come out in the URL bar as such:

...personnel-search%3Ftype%3D25

and thus give me a 404. Is there an easy way of encoding it right?

thanks

Neil