Passing a String Containing a "#"

[buckibooster]

Why is it that when I call a php page and pass a number of variables to it, one of which contains the "#," that it truncates the string and does not pass any of the variables that follow?

 

For example: http://www.anysite.com/run.php?age='7'&Processed='No'&Description='20140323 Test Proposal #2'&Division='CC57'

 

This call transmits everything until it gets to the "#" sign and stops. The string of passed variables always stops at the "#" character and does not include it. When I remove the "#" character from the passed string, however, everything works just fine. Are there any other characters that must be avoided?

Edited March 24, 2014 by buckibooster

[Ingolme]

If you're generating the URL with PHP, use urlencode(). If you're using Javascript, use encodeURIComponent() on each value before putting them in the query string. If you're manually writing this, substitute for character for the hexadecimal ASCII equivalent with a % symbol. For example # to %23 and ' to %27.

 

I don't think you should have the ' characters in your query because they'll show up in the value when PHP reads it.

[justsomeguy]

Special characters in a URL include anything that has meaning, like ?, &, =, /, #, etc. All of them need to be escaped if they are part of data in the URL instead of part of the actual URL.

[buckibooster]

Thank you Ingolme! I believe that your solution will work for me.