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get whitespace back from value that is raw url encoded?

Here i have a value which have a white space.I passed the value using rawurlencode().But when i want to use the value in sql in database query ,i can't escape the "%20" which is added instead of white space 

<a href =<?php echo "www.example.com?val =".rawurlencode("al zami") ;>click</a>

In backend i used $_GET['val'] ..but it has something like "al%20zami" .How to escape them in $_GET variable

Solution

  • use the following code. here urldecode decodes any %## encoding in the given string. 

    echo urldecode($_GET['val']);

    Ref: php Manual