PHP URL GET parameters inside URL parameter

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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?

Matt Lowden · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-17 23:53:03Z

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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');

answered Jan 17, 2011 at 23:53

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Matt Lowden Over a year ago

Perhaps I worry that I'll get it wrong and have to explain myself :)

Andy E · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-17 23:52:40Z

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You need to use urlencode on the u parameter, which will result in your URL looking like this:

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?t=MyCompany&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffoobar.com%2Ftest7.php%3FShare%3D161%26FbShare%3DFacebook28

answered Jan 17, 2011 at 23:52

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user547794 Over a year ago

How would I decode this on foobar.com/test7.php? Can I do regular GET_['variable' ?

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