PHP error using & in url

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There is a string XX&YY and I'm passing it to another page. ie, localhost/sample/XX&YY/1 for some processing. Now when I try getting the name value on the other side I'm able to get only XX and not full XX&YY. How to rectify it? Any ideas?

Note : here is my url localhost/sample.php?name=somevalue&pageno=somevalue has been url re-written to localhost/sample/name/pageno.

are you using URL rewritting? anyway you should encode the & as it's used to determine whenever you have a new parameter — aleation
– aleation, Commented Apr 12, 2013 at 7:44

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:57:17Z

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You have to escape the URL . You can use rawurlencode() or urlencode() to encode your URL.

sidenote: Difference of the 2 functions

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Ja͢ck · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-12 08:34:38Z

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If I'm understanding correctly, this is the URL to your script:

http://localhost/sample/name/pageno

Which is then rewritten by your web server to this:

http://localhost/sample.php?name=somevalue&pageno=somevalue

Then, this is how you should format the URL:

$url = sprintf('http://localhost/sample/%s/%s', 
    urlencode('XX&YY'), 
    urlencode('1')
);

answered Apr 12, 2013 at 8:34

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