Help with $_GET function and URL with many vars

[tqla]

Here's how my url looks:

mailscript.php?url=http://www.mysite.com/ci/comparison.php?s1=ALABAMA&s2=ALASKA&s3=ARIZONA&s4=ARKANSAS&s5=COLORADO&s6=FLORIDA

 

When I use the $_GET['url'] function it only gets the url up to ALABAMA

http://www.mysite.com/ci/comparison.php?s1=ALABAMA

 

I need to get the entire url, all the way to florida in this case.

 

Any ideas how to do this? Thanks

[schilly]

you will need to encode the "&" signs. mailscript thinks it's a separate variable.

 

print_r($_GET); on mailscript.php and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[wildteen88]

How are you generating the url. You need to use urlencode when you add http://www.mysite.com/ci/comparison.php?s1=ALABAMA&s2=ALASKA&s3=ARIZONA&s4=ARKANSAS&s5=COLORADO&s6=FLORIDA to your url. Eg

$refURL = 'http://www.mysite.com/ci/comparison.php?s1=ALABAMA&s2=ALASKA&s3=ARIZONA&s4=ARKANSAS&s5=COLORADO&s6=FLORIDA';

echo '<a href="mailscript.php?url='.urlencode($refURL).'">SOME LINK</a>';

 

In mailscript.php when you use $_GET['url'] you'll need to decode the url using urldecode. EG

$refURL = urldecode($_GET['url']);

echo $refURL;

[tqla]

Perfect! Thanks shilly and WT88. urlencode() worked like a charm!