note 51630 added to function.urldecode

About reg_var and "html reserved words" Do not add spaces as the user suggests. Instead, do what all HTML standards says and encode & in URLs as &amp; in your HTML. The reason why & works "most of the time" is that browsers are forgiving and just decode the & as the &-sign. This breaks whenever you have a variable that matches an HTML entity, like "gt" or "copy" or whatever. &copy in your URL will be interpreted as &copy; (the ; is not mandatory in SGML as it is "implied". In XML it is mandatory.). The result will be the same as if you had inserted the actual character into your source code, for instance by pressing alt-0169 and actually inserted © in your HTML. Ie, use: <a href="?name=stain&amp;fish=knott">mylink</a> Note that the decoding of &amp; to & is done in the browser, and it's done right after splitting the HTML into tags, attributes and content, but it works both for attributes and content. This mean you should &entitify all &-s in any other HTML attributes as well, such as in a form with <input name="fish" value="fish &amp; fries" />. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+51630 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51630&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51630&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51630&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51630&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+51630&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+51630&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php