Rechercher une fonction PHP

urlencode

Contents

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

urlencode — URL-encodes string

Description

urlencode ( string $str ) : string

This function is convenient when encoding a string to be used in a query part of a URL, as a convenient way to pass variables to the next page.

PHP: urlencode - Manual Home of Manuel PHP  Contents Haut

Parameters

str

The string to be encoded.

PHP: urlencode - Manual Home of Manuel PHP  Contents Haut

Return Values

Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits and spaces encoded as plus (+) signs. It is encoded the same way that the posted data from a WWW form is encoded, that is the same way as in application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. This differs from the » RFC 3986 encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, spaces are encoded as plus (+) signs.

PHP: urlencode - Manual Home of Manuel PHP  Contents Haut

Examples

Example #1 urlencode() example

<?php
echo '<a href="https://www.gaudry.be/en/php-rf-mycgi?foo=', urlencode($userinput), '">';
?>

Example #2 urlencode() and htmlentities() example

<?php
$query_string = 'foo=' . urlencode($foo) . '&bar=' . urlencode($bar);
echo '<a href="https://www.gaudry.be/en/php-rf-mycgi?' . htmlentities($query_string) . '">';
?>

PHP: urlencode - Manual Home of Manuel PHP  Contents Haut

Notes

Note:

Be careful about variables that may match HTML entities. Things like &amp, &copy and &pound are parsed by the browser and the actual entity is used instead of the desired variable name. This is an obvious hassle that the W3C has been telling people about for years. The reference is here: » http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2.

PHP supports changing the argument separator to the W3C-suggested semi-colon through the arg_separator .ini directive. Unfortunately most user agents do not send form data in this semi-colon separated format. A more portable way around this is to use &amp; instead of & as the separator. You don't need to change PHP's arg_separator for this. Leave it as &, but simply encode your URLs using htmlentities() or htmlspecialchars().

PHP: urlencode - Manual Home of Manuel PHP  Contents Haut

See Also

Find a PHP function

English translation

You have asked to visit this site in English. For now, only the interface is translated, but not all the content yet.

If you want to help me in translations, your contribution is welcome. All you need to do is register on the site, and send me a message asking me to add you to the group of translators, which will give you the opportunity to translate the pages you want. A link at the bottom of each translated page indicates that you are the translator, and has a link to your profile.

Thank you in advance.

Document created the 30/01/2003, last modified the 26/10/2018
Source of the printed document:https://www.gaudry.be/en/php-rf-function.urlencode.html

The infobrol is a personal site whose content is my sole responsibility. The text is available under CreativeCommons license (BY-NC-SA). More info on the terms of use and the author.

References

  1. View the html document Language of the document:fr Manuel PHP : http://php.net

These references and links indicate documents consulted during the writing of this page, or which may provide additional information, but the authors of these sources can not be held responsible for the content of this page.
The author This site is solely responsible for the way in which the various concepts, and the freedoms that are taken with the reference works, are presented here. Remember that you must cross multiple source information to reduce the risk of errors.

Contents Haut