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How can I pass an ampersand (&) in a url?

Jun 19th, 1999 07:00
Nathan Wallace, Onno Benschop, Rasmus Lerdorf, Nathan Wallace

The ampersand character is used in get requests to separate the
arguments:

http://www.example.com/foo.php3?var1=foo&var2=bar

That means that things don't work very well if you try to include an
ampersand in one of the actual arguments that you are passing.

You should always urlencode any arguments that you are passing that may
contain problem characters.

http://www.php.net/manual/function.urlencode.php3