Stipping out '+' sign

[PeteM]

I'm passing a variable to my sctipt and the variable contains a plus sign e.g.?var=james+bond. However when I attempt to use the variable by coding $HTTP_GET_VARS[var] the plus sign is gone.

Any ideas?

[JerryOdom]

php probably replaces the plus signs because they're a historically standard replacement for spaces. I'm too lazy to test the theory but I'm pretty sure its something like that due to encoding/decoding for processing.

urlencode documentation talks a little about it

[us3.php.net...]

[PeteM]

Thanks. Is the solution then just to do a str_replace and replace the ' ' with '+'? Or is there a more elegant way?

[bulkit]

just pass it back through urlencode - urlencode($HTTP_GET_VARS[var]);