file_get_contents with spaces in URL

Question

I have an issue where even if I replace the spaces to %20 and get this content the ultimate url the browser gets turns the \"%20\" into \"%2520\"

Here\'s my code, an

Answer 1

$song = $_GET['song']);

$url = "http://www.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?for=fullt&q=";

echo "list url is " . htmlentities($url . $song) . "<hr>";

$content = file_get_contents($url . urlencode($song));

echo $content;

Answer 2

$data = json_encode($_POST);

$url = "http://www.index.com?data=";

echo file_get_contents($url . urlencode($data));