php file_get_contents and &

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Published on 2010-04-17T02:09:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/19 2:33 UTC
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Hello all,

I'm trying to use php's file_get_content('a url');

The thing is if the url has '&' in it, for example

file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/?var1=1&var2=2')

it automatically make a requests to www.google.com/?var1=1&amp<no space here>;var2=2

How do I prevent that from happening?

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