Question

This question might have been asked several times, but i didn’t find a solution for it.
If I want to have an URL with & like

http://www.mydomain.de?val1=test1&val2=test1

how can I fetch these parameters with PHP?

$_GET[] doesn’t work because it expects a plain & as separator.
Any advice?

Answer 1

You need to run html_entity_decode to convert & to & or any similar character

Via URL

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = html_entity_decode($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'],$_GET);
var_dump($_GET);

Simple String

$url = "http://www.mydomain.de?val1=test1&val2=test1";
$url = html_entity_decode(parse_url($url,PHP_URL_QUERY));
parse_str($url,$parts);
var_dump($parts);

Output

array
  'val1' => string 'test1' (length=5)
  'val2' => string 'test1' (length=5)