Question

I’m having issues passing on multiple $_GET variables with “next”.

I’m redirecting users to the login page:

login?next=initial_page?email=[e-mail]&activate_key=1421sdxzcxz213xz

The problem is that the activation key is treated as a second $_GET parameter on the login page (along with “next”), instead of being part of the redirected $_GET.

A solution would be to use cookies, is there any way I can still make this work with $_GET though?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to use urlencode to encode the parameter data–something like this:

echo '<a href="login?next=' . urlencode('initial_page?email=[e-mail]&activate_key=1421sdxzcxz213xz') . '">link</a>';

This will produce a link like this:

<a href="login?next=initial_page%3Femail%3Djohn_doe%40gmail.com%26activate_key%3D1421sdxzcxz213xz">link</a>

…which will be interpreted correctly.