[CakePHP] Ampersand in URL

Question

hi all,

i'm developing cakephp application.

i need some specific characters in url, like & (ampersand), because i need it for search purpose.

but, if i have ampersand in my url (like http://localhost/myapp/publications/index/string:Mono%20Manana/tags:publisher), it is rewrited and redirected as default url (in this case http://localhost/myapp/).

can you help me how to solve this and to use all kind of strings in my application.

thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Did you use urlencode()?

Some of your source code would really help us to see what's going on.

Answer 2

ok, just to mention that i did find solution, not with urlencode, but using base64_encode. hopefully it will do the job...

Answer 3

How did you solve this? I've exact the same problem and can't figure it out (both urlencode en base64_encode tried)

foreach($brands as $brand) {
        echo $this->Html->link(ucwords($brand), array('action' => 'index', 'brand' => urlencode(low($brand))));

        echo '<br />';
    }

Purpose is to give an overview of links of all the brands and by clicking on one you can see products of a specific brand. But some of the brand names have an ampersand in them. For instance the brand 'D&G'. If I click on that link I get redirected to /products/index/brand:d&g. A visit to that link redirects me to just /products/index. Not what I want in fact.