i'm display product information from file by there name

So in some products name included with special characters specially ' & 'etc..

so for example : here is the url mysite.com/index.php?s=html & php so its showing html only in echo

i'm using $_REQUEST['s']; for getting url

here is the code for encode i used

  <?php

    $text = $_REQUEST['s'];

    echo rawurlencode($text);

    ?>

but its not working with $_request its displaying only Html

but when i used simple text its work eg..

    <?php

    $text = ('html & php');

    echo rawurlencode($text);

    ?>

so now its work and echo came html%20%26%20php and thats what i want

please help me to solve that $_REQUEST thing what should i do with that

thanks in advanced

it is because you are using & in the url this acts as a seperator, try using %26 inplace of the &

 

i.e. mysite.com/index.php?s=html %26 php

it is because you are using & in the url this acts as a seperator, try using %26 inplace of the &

 

i.e. mysite.com/index.php?s=html %26 php

 

i cannot change the url because i'm getting link data from xml file feed from an online server

product name html & php in xml so its must be xml & php for showing this product other information eg. details and price ....

 

so i cannot change the name or change the url ...

is there any other solution ??

What's probably happening is:

 

$_GET['s'] = html

$_GET['php'] = ""

 

If you want to grab if it's HTML and php and you definitely can't change the URL then your going to have to hack it around and do something like:

 

If(isset($_GET['php']) && $_GET['s'] == "html") {

$s = "html&php";

}

 

Then use $s and rawurlencode it.

 

Good luck!