URL encoding and decoding ...

[Anon]

Hello again,

I have a link on my page where one of the parameters is a URL, that is:

<a href="linkpage.php?par=1&goto=<php urlencode("page1.php?par1=a&par2=b").">link</a>

The goto parameter is actually equal to:

page1.php?par1=a&par2=b

On the link page I use the goto value to link me to another page after passing it thru the function urldecode.

However, it only returns:

page1.php?par1=a

that is, the last parameter par2=b in the goto url is recognised as a parameter for linkpage.php.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Am I misusing the urlencode/decode functions incorrectly?

++Tx
Pete

PS: I did the same trick with the functions rawurlencode and rawurldecode with the same result.

[Anon]

What version of php are you running?
Have you printed the outcome of the urlencode to screen?

[Anon]

Hi,

I am using PHP 3.0.12 ... I printed the output to the screen and it does not encode using rawurlencode()... however, I did the following:

$link = rawurlencode($link);
$link = rawurlencode($link);

and it encoded it, however, I put $link as a hidden variable in a form and it was decoded, as if I ran a rawurldecode, but I had not ... very strange ...

++Tx
Pete