include &ampersand in data -php mysql

[peter162in]

  <td><a href="data.php?symbol=$symbol" >$symbol</td>

 

This line passing variable to  another page data.php.The data  is taken  from my sql data base.

data looks like this

 

1. tea

2. cofee

3. tea&coffee

 

When I using get on data.php

 

 

$symbol = $_GET['symbol'];

 

first two option works perfectly and the third one not working. beacuase there is & ampersand sign in the data.

data after apersand sign get disappeared.

I read the article of urlencode, htmlentities. not find a solution. please help me

when I click the link I can seen the data is passed to data.php.Here my mind really confused.Something really wrong with me.

 

1.http://localhost/myusage/symbolwise.php?symbol=tea

2.http://localhost/myusage/symbolwise.php?symbol=cofee

3.http://localhost/myusage/symbolwise.php?symbol=tea&coffee

for the third link  Get  not wroking

please help me

 

 

 

 

[Alex]

You need to use urlencode and urldecode.

 

echo '<td><a href="data.php?symbol= ' . urlencode($symbol) . '" >' . $symbol . '</td>';

 

And when getting the data from $_GET:

 

echo urldecode($symbol);