symbol can't be printed in GET php

Question

I have a link like this:

http://domain.com/page.php?product=brown+rice

And then in the page.php page I GET the product:

 $product = $_GET['product'];



 <?php echo $product; ?>

But it only prints : brown rice without the +

How to get the + in the get method?

you need to use `urlencode` in the product GET parameter – Aditya Dec 08 '14 at 07:20 — Aditya, Dec 08 '14 at 07:20

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 08 '14 at 10:54

First, I will replace it with any different symbol before I pass it in the link:

For example:

     http://domain.com/page.php?product='.str_replace("+","_",$obj->items).'"

And then in the page.php I will turn it back to the original symbol:

  $product= str_replace("_","+",$_GET['product']);

This method will only replace all products which have + symbol in the url. And when you GET it, it will check if the name of the product will have the symbol.

I hope that you understand and it helps

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:22

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First URL encode and then decode using

urlencode() and urldecode()

<?php
$_GET['url'] = '123abc+456';
echo $_GET['url'];
echo "<br/>";
echo $_GET['url'] = urlencode($_GET['url']);

echo "<br/>";
echo str_replace('%2B', '+', $_GET['url']);
?>

Variables for $_GET considers + as a space.

URL encode adds %2B against space.

Then decode it with string replace.

Demo: http://codepad.org/67QVYHY3

answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:22

Pupil

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can you make it with my code above. Because it's a little complicated for me to interpret it – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:37
Please don't make the example for the urlencode or str_replace in the `echo` but in the `GET` itself instead. – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:41

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:22

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Might be help

echo isset($_GET['product']) ? urlencode($_GET['product']) : 'Product Not Found';

answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:22

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It replace all empty space with + – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:53

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:28

Please refer the below url, it is already answerd in stackoverflow,

PHP - Plus sign with GET query

If you'll read the entirety of that bug report you'll see a reference to RFC 2396. Which states that + is reserved. PHP is correct in translating an unencoded + sign to a space.

You could use urlencode() the ciphertext when returning it to the user. Thus, when the user submits the ciphertext for decryption, you can urldecode() it. PHP will do this automatically for you if it comes in via the GET string as well.

Bottom line: The + must be submitted to PHP as the encoded value: %2B

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 01 '21 at 05:51

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//page 1
$criteria = urlencode("brown+rice");
$URL = "http://example.com/page.php?product={$criteria}";
//page 2
$product = $_GET['product'];
echo $product;

answered Aug 01 '21 at 05:51

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Please explain your solution. – Jonathan Aug 01 '21 at 15:48

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:19

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Replace + with it's representation %2B

answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:19

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`str_replace("+", "%2B", $url)` – Justinas Dec 08 '14 at 07:40
It replace all empty space with +. – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:43

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:20

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You could read out $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]

preg_match_all('/(\w+)=([^&]+)/', $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"], $set);
$_GET = array_combine($set[1], $set[2]);

answered Dec 08 '14 at 07:20

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Where to write this, in the page.php or before I pass it? – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:31
Undefined index query strings – alisa Dec 08 '14 at 07:36

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 09 '21 at 07:21

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Just write http://example.com/page.php?product=brown%2Brice

%2B changes to plus, because B2 (hex) is a '+' in ASCII table

answered Oct 09 '21 at 07:21

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symbol can't be printed in GET php

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