Encoding string in PHP

Question

I currently working on PHP and at some part of code I generate URL string. I set the GET parameter to currencyCode. But before I add &. So, at result I must get &currencyCode but get ¤cyCode.

How do I fix it?

Answer 1

You need to create url this way using urlencode() function:

<?php

   echo 'http://example.com/'.urlencode('&currencyCode');

I also think that your main problem is with displaying it. You should use:

echo htmlspecialchars('&currencyCode');

to display it.

Otherwise it seems browser change the first part of this string into: ¤ entity so you get something like that ¤cyCode and what makes you have display ¤ symbol what is ¤ and the rest of string cyCode

Answer 2

You should use urlencode() function in php to encode the url. Your code should look like this

<?php
echo 'http://yoursitename.com/'.urlencode('&currencyCode');