Use Laravels Input class. http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/requests#basic-input

Input::get('key')

Hi iWader

I'm using laravel's input class. I tried editing my initial post but for some reason I can't update it. I'm doing the following.

I'm creating links with $_GET values in the $url as per below and not using HTML link() because I have html tags within the anchors and HTML link() echos it out as actual text instead of html.

<a href="search/{{$url}}"><span>{{$v}}</span></a>

When the link is clicked on it results in a url that has %2520.

P.S. I don't know what is up with the edit function on this forum but it's definitely broken.

Laravel 5 or 4?

In Laravel 5, {{ }} escapes by default. {!! $url !!}

I had the same problem. The reason of the double encoding is the fact that I was redirecting to a url which ended with a /. Laravel redirects this route to a url without a slash, but performs the urlencoding twice.

So by removing the ending slash, I solved the problem.