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theModerator713
theModerator713

Reputation: 87

how to stop & from changing to &amp in a url?

I have a url like this, https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3

when I try to get the data of the url using file_get_contents() it shows below error,

PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.example.com/send?id=1&amptext=http://example2.com/song.mp3): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented

and the & have converted to &amp. due to that the url is not working.

I have tried htmlspecialchars_decode() and preg_replace() on & , but it didn't do anything.

how to solve this ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2640

Answers (2)

Jay Lee
Jay Lee

Reputation: 65

take a look at this sir, where $str="your link"

sample 

$str = "https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3";

echo html_entity_decode($str);

will output the one you want....

Upvotes: 1

msk
msk

Reputation: 481

I think you better to use cURL instead of file_get_contents(), because referring server must be enabled allow_url_fopen in their server if you are using file_get_contents(), but cURL is a library it just make a http requests

<?php
    $cSession = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3");
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
    $result=curl_exec($cSession);
    curl_close($cSession);
    echo $result;
?>

refer following links

file_get_contents script works with some websites but not others

cURL vs file_get_contents

Upvotes: 1

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