PHP - Plus sign with GET query

Question

I have a PHP script that does basic encryption of a string through the method below:

Answer 1

We ran into the same problem trying to pass a URL to a PHP script with a string variable containing the "+" symbol. We were able to make it work with;

encodeURIComponent([string])

EG:

var modelString = "SEACAT+PROFILER";
modelString = encodeURIComponent(modelString);
//"SEACAT%2BPROFILER"

The %2B passes the correct value to the PHP GET as @hobodave said, and we get back the right data set.

Hope this helps someone else who ran into something like this, and needed a slightly different take on the examples above.