Question

I am trying to pass a big url as a string to another php page and fetch it there via $_REQUEST[]
but it’s not working.
Here is the code (JavaScript) from first page:

var url="index.php?module=Contacts&return_module=Campaigns&action=UD_DetailView&popuptype=detailview&select=enable&form=EditView&form_submit=false";
var intermediate_url="choose_template.php?variable_url="+url;

window.location=intermediate_url;

The code on other page is:

<?php
echo "url = ".$_REQUEST['variable_url'];
?>

The echo I get on page choose_template.php is this :

url = index.php?module=Contacts

I don’t understand. Why does it break at the occurance of first & ?
What should I do to bypass it ?

Answer 1

Try using in js:

url = encodeURIComponent(url);

Than in php:

echo "url = ". urldecode($_REQUEST['variable_url']);