How to Pass a Plus Sign to a URL?

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Hi,

I have a problem with passing a plus sign (+) in a URL as an argument, it comes as a space instead of the plus sign. do anyone know how can i solve this issue.

note that I'm using a php code.

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Posted 21-Sep-12 21:11pm

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Updated 31-Oct-18 2:32am

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Isuru Nanayakkara · Answer 1 · 2012-09-22T07:24:00

Solution 2

Look up URL encoding. Official PHP document here

Posted 22-Sep-12 7:24am

Isuru Nanayakkara

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2012-09-21T21:58:00

Solution 1

See here[^].

Posted 21-Sep-12 21:58pm

Richard MacCutchan

Huseyin Atasoy · Answer 3 · 2012-09-22T23:04:00

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Plus in a url means space character. You can use "%2B" instead of a plus sign in urls.
An here is an online tool to encode or decode characters rapidly:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/[^]

Posted 22-Sep-12 23:04pm

Huseyin Atasoy