Posted by Marek Kilimajer on 03/29/05 00:55

Aaron Todd wrote:
> I am trying to use the rawurldecode() function to decode a variable that is
> begin passed from a different page through the url. The PHP manual doesnt
> say much for this function, but it does have quite a bit on the urldecode()
> function which says using urldecode on a $_GET variable wont produce the
> desired results. Is there another way to decode a url variable? Or maybe a
> better way to get a variable from one page to another so I can use it. The
> variable may contain all types of characters, but mainly a space(%20) is the
> biggest problem.
>
> If anyone has some kind of workaround for this please let me know.

You should not need it, %20 is decoded to space and as such is already
in $_GET variable. If it's still encoded then you encoded it where it
was not necessary.

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