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, Apr 12 '13 at 07:44

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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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

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 12 '13 at 08:34

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')
);

PHP error using & in url

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