Pass # as text in querystring in php

Question

I have this url https://www.industrialstores.com/search_results/Asco+8214G30+3%252F4%5C%5C%5C%220%252F5%23+Gas+Shutoff+Valve/46

but in above, %23 is # before Gas in url and making all the things after this unreadable in php.

When I trying to fetch the value of s & o from the query string, I am not getting any value for o and for s, only Asco+8214G30+3%252F4%5C%5C%5C%220%252F5 returns but it should return Asco+8214G30+3%252F4%5C%5C%5C%220%252F5%23+Gas+Shutoff+Valve

I am using httaccess rewrite to make this url RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{3,100})/([^/]+)/([^/]+)?$ index.php?page=$1&s=$2&o=$3 [L]

And code for fetching the querystring value as :

if(isset($_GET['s'])){

$search_keyword=str_replace("_"," ",$_GET['s']);
}
if(isset($_GET['o']) && $_GET['o'] !=''){
$searchin = $_GET['o'];
}

And setting query string values as below:

$keyword = urlencode(str_replace("/","%2F",$_REQUEST['search_keyword']));

Answer 1

I corrected this by converting # to %23 before urlencoding the url using the code below,

str_replace("#","%23",$_REQUEST['search_keyword']); 

Answer 2

You cannot retrieve nothing after the #, any browser will remove because this is a anchor.

This is explained at: Can I read the hash portion of the URL on my server-side application (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.)?

You you want get this # you must slugify/urlize your url with some library like Slugify this will encode the "strange" chars.

Example:

use Cocur\Slugify\Slugify;

$slugify = new Slugify();//for iconv translit
echo $slugify->slugify('Hello World!'); // hello-world

I think that this is better than let to the browser make a simple url encode.

Answer 3

try use rawurlencode() function.