Creating a URL (HTTP Query) with PHP without escaping special charaters

Question

I want this:

datasetid=GHCND&locationid=ZIP:28801&startdate=2010-05-01&enddate=2010-05-01

I have this:

$data=['datasetid'=>'GHCND','locationid'=>'ZIP:28801','startdate'=>'2010-05-01','enddate'=>'2010-05-01'];

I tried this:

exit(http_build_query($data));

I got this:

datasetid=GHCND&locationid=ZIP%3A28801&startdate=2010-05-01&enddate=2010-05-01

How can I prevent ZIP:28801 from being escaped as ZIP%3A28801?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6132721/http-build-query-without-url-encoding — labue, Jan 19 '17 at 15:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 19 '17 at 15:30

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You need to urldecode the string like this:

urldecode(http_build_query($data));

answered Jan 19 '17 at 15:30

Luke Bailey

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