Question

I am developing facebook/myspace content share buttons. The Facebook link takes you to a URL on my website, but I need to pass additional parameters to my URL along with the parameters passed to facebook. Here’s my example:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?t=MyCompany&u=http://foobar.com/test7.php?Share=161&FbShare=Facebook28

Do I need to escape something inside the “u” parameter?

Answer 1

You should be able to do (http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php).

$url = 'http://www.facebook.com/share.php?t=MyCompany&u='.urlencode('http://foobar.com/test7.php?Share=161&FbShare=Facebook28');