special characters send with url

Question

How do i get the special characters from a form submit. For example: a form got a name="customer[firstname]".

The url will be customer%5Bfirstname%5D=Test.

i've tried:

$firstName = $_GET['customer[firstname]'];

also the same with urldecode, rawurldecode.

Read This http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5662249/php-url-encoding-decoding — Dev Danidhariya, Jun 01 '15 at 07:48
%20 is space, %5B is '[' , %5D is ']' so your url have array — user1844933, Jun 01 '15 at 07:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '15 at 07:47

Using [...] in your name attributes you are creating an array that you can access on the server as:

$firstName = $_GET['customer']['firstname'];

And if you omit the value in the brackets, you get a numerical array:

name="customer[]"

Would become on the server:

// for example, you should really loop over `$_GET['customer']` instead...
$firstName = $_GET['customer'][0];

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '15 at 07:48

-1

This is about HTML entities.

answered Jun 01 '15 at 07:48

Frank B

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