& in url

[Benpsycho]

Hi, I want to start an external script by calling its url and I want to assign some variables directly in the url.
For example:
www.example.com/index.php?test=blabalbal&test2=blabla

My problem is that I want to use the & sign inside the variable.
For example I want the variable test to have this value:

$test = "blbl&asda&bla";

If I do this over the url i.e.:
www.example.com/index.php?test=blbl&asda&bla
the variable test only has the value "blbl" and not "blbl&asda&bla".
I tried this:
www.example.com/index.php?test="blbl&asda&bla" or
www.example.com/index.php?test='blbl&asda&bla' or
www.example.com/index.php?test='blbl\&asda\&bla' or
www.example.com/index.php?test='blbl\&asda\&bla'
but nothing seems to work...
Can you help me?
Thx!

[tekky]

urlencode()

searching would have found this... I for one posted in a thread about this ~6 days ago....

Note: Be careful about variables that may match HTML entities. Things like &amp, &copy and &pound are parsed by the browser and the actual entity is used instead of the desired variable name. This is an obvious hassle that the W3C has been telling people about for years. The reference is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 PHP supports changing the argument separator to the W3C-suggested semi-colon through the arg_separator .ini directive. Unfortunately most user agents do not send form data in this semi-colon separated format. A more portable way around this is to use & instead of & as the separator. You don't need to change PHP's arg_separator for this. Leave it as &, but simply encode your URLs using htmlentities(urlencode($data)).