In my code, I create a link like this:
$link = 'http://www.mydomain.com/'.urlencode($str).'/1';
I use url-rewriting and the rule in my htaccess file looks like this:
rewriteRule ^(.+)/(.*)$ index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [NC,L]
This code is working fine for almost every strings. But sometimes, the string to encode contains "&". The urlencode function encodes it corectly, but when I read the $_GET array in php, it looks like this (with $str = 'substring1&substring2'):
'var1' => 'substring1' (without "&")
'substring2' => '' (without "&")
'var2' => 1
I really need the "&" in my var. Is there a way to encode that character to make it works?
Also, I really don't know why, but sometimes I get a forbidden http error with some strings passed as var1. Apparently, they have nothing special, for exemple, "Décarie Square" makes that error. Other strings with spaces and "é" are working fine.