Improve action id lookup for segments (#16977)

* Improve action id lookup fog segments

if no id can be found for a segment with the normalized value, try looking it up the the original value

* Adds UI test for opening vlog with outlink containing a &

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/core/Tracker/TableLogAction.php b/core/Tracker/TableLogAction.php
index fea4cac171..331239f3d9 100644
--- a/core/Tracker/TableLogAction.php
+++ b/core/Tracker/TableLogAction.php
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class TableLogAction
 
         $actionIds = self::queryIdsAction($actionsNameAndType);
 
-        list($queriedIds, $fieldNamesToInsert) = self::processIdsToInsert($actionsNameAndType, $actionIds);
+        [$queriedIds, $fieldNamesToInsert] = self::processIdsToInsert($actionsNameAndType, $actionIds);
 
         $insertedIds = self::insertNewIdsAction($actionsNameAndType, $fieldNamesToInsert);
         $queriedIds  = $queriedIds + $insertedIds;
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class TableLogAction
         $inserted = array();
 
         foreach ($fieldNamesToInsert as $fieldName) {
-            list($name, $type, $urlPrefix) = $actionsNameAndType[$fieldName];
+            [$name, $type, $urlPrefix] = $actionsNameAndType[$fieldName];
 
             $actionId = self::getModel()->createNewIdAction($name, $type, $urlPrefix);
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ class TableLogAction
     {
         $toQuery = array();
         foreach ($actionsNameAndType as &$actionNameType) {
-            list($name, $type, $urlPrefix) = $actionNameType;
+            [$name, $type, $urlPrefix] = $actionNameType;
             $toQuery[] = array('name' => $name, 'type' => $type);
         }
 
@@ -184,14 +184,20 @@ class TableLogAction
                 $valueToMatch = preg_replace('@^http[s]?://(www\.)?@i', '', $valueToMatch);
             }
 
+            $unsanitizedValue = $valueToMatch;
             $valueToMatch = self::normaliseActionString($actionType, $valueToMatch);
             if ($matchType == SegmentExpression::MATCH_EQUAL
                 || $matchType == SegmentExpression::MATCH_NOT_EQUAL
             ) {
                 $idAction = self::getModel()->getIdActionMatchingNameAndType($valueToMatch, $actionType);
-                // Action is not found (eg. &segment=pageTitle==Větrnásssssss)
+                // If action can't be found normalized try search for it with original value
+                // This can eg happen for outlinks that contain a & see https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/11806
                 if (empty($idAction)) {
-                    $idAction = null;
+                    $idAction = self::getModel()->getIdActionMatchingNameAndType($unsanitizedValue, $actionType);
+                    // Action is not found (eg. &segment=pageTitle==Větrnásssssss)
+                    if (empty($idAction)) {
+                        $idAction = null;
+                    }
                 }
                 return $idAction;
             }