get rid of &amp in url

[mck.workman]

Hey guys!

 

I have a url with ....&..... and was trying to use urldecode to change it to .....&....... but I see now urldecode doesn't do that. Is there a function that does do it so I don't have to replace "amp;" with "" manually?

 

I know preg_replace("/amp;/", "", $tempURL); works but is that what is typically used?

 

Thanks!

McK

[Pikachu2000]

AFAIK, a literal ampersand shouldn't be in the url at all unless it's being used as the separator between query string arguments. Can you provide some more context as to how this is being used?

[mck.workman]

I use regEx's to get the URL out of HTML in a webpage it comes out with the &

 

bla.....<a href="/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=app_people&node=136&i=20" title="Page 2">....bla

 

My understanding is that HTML translates the & to just & when a user clicks the link but when I use file_get_contents to see the url with the & it doesn't like it so I have to use preg replace to remove it.

 

McK

[Philip]

Parts of this comment might help

[premiso]

Or just use  html_entity_decode. I do not really see why that would not work for this situation.

 

echo html_entity_decode("/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=app_people&node=136&i=20");

// Outputs:
/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=app_people&node=136&i=20

[mck.workman]

got it. Thanks a lot premiso!