how to stop & from changing to & in a url?

Question

I have a url like this, https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3

when I try to get the data of the url using file_get_contents() it shows below error,

PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.example.com/send?id=1&amptext=http://example2.com/song.mp3): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 501 Not Implemented

and the & have converted to &amp. due to that the url is not working.

I have tried htmlspecialchars_decode() and preg_replace() on & , but it didn't do anything.

how to solve this ?

@Xorifelse no escaping it with %26 did not solve the problem — theModerator713, Jan 15 '17 at 17:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

I think you better to use cURL instead of file_get_contents(), because referring server must be enabled allow_url_fopen in their server if you are using file_get_contents(), but cURL is a library it just make a http requests

<?php
    $cSession = curl_init(); 
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3");
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);
    curl_setopt($cSession,CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
    $result=curl_exec($cSession);
    curl_close($cSession);
    echo $result;
?>

refer following links

file_get_contents script works with some websites but not others

cURL vs file_get_contents

There seems to be a space before and after the '&' in the url. You can try to remove the spaces — Nadir Latif, Jan 17 '17 at 06:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '18 at 06:14

1

take a look at this sir, where $str="your link"

sample

$str = "https://www.example.com/send?id=1&text=http://example2.com/song.mp3";

echo html_entity_decode($str);

will output the one you want....

answered May 07 '18 at 06:14

Jay Lee

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how to stop & from changing to & in a url?

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