How do I escape an ampersand in a url?

[carlwenrich]

I'd like to use file_get_contents to read a url, but when the url contains an ampersand (for the second passed arg) everything after the ampersand (including the ampersand itself) is ignored.

[discomatt]

&

 

You can do this automatically by using htmlentities()

[carlwenrich]

Actually, I don't think so. I think that's for a different situation.

Here's the code:

 

$url = "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=BJS&m=2008-05";

$content = file_get_contents($url);

 

The page that gets returned is the one for this url:

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=BJS

 

which is the first month of options, whereas I need the second one.

[GingerRobot]

It appears to work fine for me. In any case, you shouldn't have need to escape the ampersand - it is being used to separate the arguments.

 

What version of PHP are you using?

[laffin]

I think thats his point. it's not taking the 2nd parameter.

 

for me it worked fine using php5 and php4.

 

<?php
  
   $url = "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=BJS&m=2008-05";
   echo file_get_contents($url);
?>

 

so sumfin else is going on with yer setup, or the coding u use to generate the url