Server Variables

[JamesBowtell]

Hey all

Need some help with some server variables....

My problem is i have a textbox on a html page called page1.html that when an sql query is placed in to the textbox that SQL query will display the relevent data on a PHP page called page2.php.

i have the page1.html pass the data using the GET method, on page2.php i want to grab the information passed over using the GET method using server variables... so far i have the following code

page2.php

<?php 

$input = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

echo ("{$input}")
?>

This grabs the information that was entered in the textbox:

textarea=SELECT+*+FROM+tbl_Students+WHERE+DegreeID+%3D+1&Submit=Submit

what i want to do now is return the text to it's original form

SELECT * FROM tbl_Students WHERE DegreeID = 1

How would i do this?

thanks