[thelist] PHP encoding &s in a URL

fstorr fffrancis at fstorr.demon.co.uk
Mon Sep 1 14:55:47 CDT 2003


Matt King wrote:

> urlencode it for the URL, then take the querystring value and urldecode it
> before you use it in your SQL query...

++++

Hi

Okay, 2 replies saying encode, looks like I was nearly there.  This is 
probably obvious, but why doesn't this code work?  It's just these lines 
that I've tested this on this evening - the actual page is at work.  The 
page refers back onto itself - all I get is the D and not the D%26T.


<a href="encode.php?q=d&t">D&amp;T</a>
<?
$somevar = urlencode($_GET['q']);
echo "somevar equals " .$somevar;
?>






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