Request()->query strips away query parameters if they are part of the query parameter

[codegeek1001]

• Laravel Version: 5.6
• PHP Version: 7.2
• Database Driver & Version: MySQL 5.7

Description:

I have a URL passed in a "next" variable in request query. The URL has its own query parameters. However, request()->query('next') strips away the query parameters starting with '&'

FULL URL: http://example.com/my-page?next=http://example.com/some-other-page?id=10&cat=123

But request()->query(‘next’) = http://example.com/some-other-page?id=10 which is wrong
as it has stripped away the remaining query parameters.

[staudenmeir]

Laravel can't know whether &cat=123 belongs to /my-page or /some-other-page.

You have to encode the value:

$next = rawurlencode('http://example.com/some-other-page?id=10&cat=123');
$url = 'http://example.com/my-page?next='.$next;

[driesvints]

See @staudenmeir's answer.