Escaping & in url string

[Good2CU]

I want to pass a paramter with an & in it (such as "rock&roll"). I tried using htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() and they seem to have no effect. I even tried encoding it as rock&roll, but it just gets converted to & within the address bar. then when I try to use the page in a script, it would look for the paramater "rock" and ignore the "&roll" part.

I would need to de-code it as well.

Thanks

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For adding text to the query string, the appropriate escaping function is [man]urlencode/man or [man]rawurlencode/man. You do not need to use urldecode() as the client will decode the URL automatically.

[Good2CU]

You really know your stuff, thanks again

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You're welcome 🙂
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