My PHP script first does a query to obtain customer info for a form. The form has first name and last name fields among others. The customer has put entries such as "Ron & Jean" in the first name field in the database. Then the edit form script is called with variables such as "http://myserver.com/custinfo/edit.php?mode=view&fname=Ron & Jean&lname=Smith". The script variable for first name $_REQUE