Room name which has "&" sign never gets deleted or edited

[ajay]

Hi there,
           I have created a room "For friends & friendship". Now i am not able open this room or edit this room or delete this room. After trying to find the reason i got to know that it's because of that "&" sign in room name. Please can someone help me how to delete such room. And what do i need to do to accept such signs for room name, because if my site members will create a room with such signs it will create a big problem for me. I think it's a coding part and there will be other signs also which can create such problem. So Please help & suggest me what do i need to do?

[ajay]

I deleted the rooms which have "&" sign in name from the database but still problem is there only.. what do i need to do to accept such signs(like "&" for which i faced problem) in Room name.

[Desmond Taylor]

I don't know what script to edit but when creating a room parse the signs like & using htmlspecialchars() function.

example:
$room_name = htmlspecialchars($_POST['room_name']);

this would conver the & sign to &

I really havent looked at any of the code yet but will be shortly as I would like to add extra features.