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I realize that in a URL, the + symbol represents a space, however I need to keep the plus sign. How can I do this? My URL and code are as follows:

http://www.example.com/path/test.php?test=2+2

<?php
    $test = $_GET['test'];

    echo $test;
?>

This prints out 2 2.

Peter Mortensen
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  • There must be a better (canonical) duplicate. That one is for ASP.NET and the answers are specific for .NET. It is mostly about the *how* in .NET, and it has very few details about the encoding. – Peter Mortensen Nov 27 '22 at 21:58

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+ is interpreted as a space in a URL. To use a + you need %2B.

http://example.com/path/test.php?test=2%2B2

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  • Technically correct, but also very narrow. Usually for a particular framework (this is tagged with PHP) there is a ***standard*** function to do it (which also covers more than this single character, `+`). – Peter Mortensen Nov 27 '22 at 22:01