Pass complex URL as parameter in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to pass a complex URL as a url parameter but the problem occurs if the url contains & for example I want to pass the following link as a parameter

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Answer 1

From what I understand, you'll need to replace & into &.

$url = str_replace('&', '&', $url);

& is reserved, used for separating GET parameters, & is for writing a literal ampersand in a URL.