Special chars, encoding and decoding a page title with an ampersand (for sharing)

[a-ok]

I'm curious.

In order to share a link via Twitter you do something like the following

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=<?php echo $page->title; ?>&url=<?php echo $page->httpURL; ?>&via=processwire

And in most instances that works fine. However, if the page title has an ampersand in it then it breaks the text. I've looked at using $sanitizer for this but doesn't seem to do the job. What I've found out works is the following:

htmlspecialchars(urlencode(html_entity_decode($page->title, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

However I'm wondering if there is a way to use $sanitizer to achieve this? Or some other way with the API?

Thanks!

[Soma]

No there's not. You just use urlencode($page->title)