ampersand not passing through url

Question

On my site www.gibberize.com if you type in the word "and" in the top textarea, the character "&" will appear in the second textarea.

The problem is that the "tweet it" link will then append the second textarea's text to a url and proceed to the link, but because it is an ampersand it will break the text.

Any solutions?

Answer 1

Use PHP's urlencode() function.

Answer 2

Yes, escape the ampersand symbol before appending the tweet, change any & for %26. You may want to

encodeURIComponent()

the whole text.

Note: original function I suggested was escape().

Answer 3

Use the encodeURIComponent function. You could just change it to %26 yourself, but it's safer to use the function provided, as that will take care of any other odd characters that might get messed up in transmission.