If $data['feed_link'] is extracted from $_POST, then it's already urldecoded. BTW, what's the problem? It's not redirecting you, or just redirecting you to az unavailable/wrong page? ( most browsers change the & in titlebar to '&', so you don't have to worry about that ) -----Original Message----- From: muad shibani [mailto:muad.shibani@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 12:36 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: PHP redirect when I try to go to a URL by using PHP header function so if the URL contains & it converts it to & so the needed page will not display correctly I tried to use: $url = urldecode($data['feed_link']); header ( "Location: $url" ); but I can't get it -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php