note 118087 added to function.urldecode

When sending a string via AJAX POST data which contains an ampersand (&), be sure to use encodeURIComponent() on the javascript side and use urldecode() on the php side for whatever variable that was. I've found it tricky to transfer raw ampersands and so this is what worked for me: <?php $_POST["data"] = "one%20%26%20two"; $a = urldecode($_POST["data"); // -> "one & two" ?> For some reason, a variable with an ampersand would stay encoded while other POST variables were automatically decoded. I concatenated data from an html form before submitting, in case you wish to know what happened on the browser end. ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 50.84.176.166 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/118087 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118087 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/118087 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php