note 94686 deleted from function.urlencode by danbrown
| From: | danbrown@php.net | Date: | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:21:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 94686 deleted from function.urlencode by danbrown | ||
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Note Submitter: DN
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urlencode and rawurlencode are highly unreliable since browsers interpret everything differently,
particularly the & symbol. If you want a no-nonsense way to safely encode a string to be passed
as a GET variable, I recommend using...
............Sending page............
<?php
$encodedString = base64_encode($complexString);
echo "<a href=\"?var=".$encodedString."\">Text</a>";
?>
............Receiving page............
<?php
$decodeString = base64_decode($_GET["var"]);
?>