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Fawzan
Fawzan

Reputation: 4849

Strange encoding issue in PHP

I have been banging my head in the wall for couple of hours, I still couldn't figure out the issue. I have an associative array and when I try to build a query with it, It shows weird characters in the browser. 

$reportVars = [
            "__report" => "alpha",
            "start_date" => "2001",
            "end_date" => "2002",
            "dsp_id" => "SPP",
            "current_sp_id" => "SPP_1",
            "sp_name" => "fawzan"

        ];

print_r(http_build_query($reportVars));

This is the output I get in the browser

__report=alpha&start_date=2001&end_date=2002&dsp_id=SPP¤t_sp_id=SPP_1&sp_name=fawzan

Note the strange character (¤) in the output after SPP, Before you ask No, I did not copy it from anywhere. I just typed it with my bare hand.

Can anyone please help me here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 81

Answers (1)

Nabeel Khan
Nabeel Khan

Reputation: 3993

&curren is being converted to ¤

you may have few options now:

  1. move the current_sp_id to top, making it the first variable so that there is no & before it

  2. use &amp as separator instead of & only by using:

    print_r(http_build_query($reportVars, '', '& amp;'));

(remove the space between & and amp, added it because it's being converted to & only here too).

P.S. php isn't causing this issue as per my understanding, it's how your browser treats &curren by probably converting it to ¤ itself

Upvotes: 3

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