how to get complete value in a variable in the page url php

Question

I have this URL in my page

https://www.albaama.com/search.php?qry=Fashion%20&%20Clothing

and I use this code below to echo out the value of the variable 'qry'

<?php 
    if (isset($_GET['qry'])) {
        echo $_GET['qry'];
    } 
    else {
        echo "";
    } 
?>

but whenever I echo it, I only get Fashion instead of Fashion & Clothing. please how do I get the complete value?

Not sure if it's a dupe of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41907682/should-an-ampersand-be-url-encoded-in-a-query-string, but it covers the principle the & should be encoded. — Nigel Ren, Sep 20 '20 at 18:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '20 at 18:44

This query string: https://www.albaama.com/search.php?qry=Fashion%20&%20Clothing

Translates to this:

The problem is that & introduces a second parameter.

You need to urlencode() the entire string "Fashion & Clothing"

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