Url Encoding in PHP/HTML

Question

I have an url with spaces:

http://mihalko.eu/image/data/ister/Nomad Plus-G- cierno cervena.jpg

(browser can open this link) What is the best way to urlencode this url (space=%20)?

Nomad%20Plus-G-%20cierno%20cervena.jpg

urlencode:

http%3A%2F%2Fmihalko.eu%2Fimage%2Fdata%2Fister%2FNomad+Plus-G-+cierno+cervena.jpg

(browser can't open this link)
urlencode give me this result, but my browser wont't open this url.

That's URL encoding, not HTML.

SLaks
– SLaks

2012-06-07 17:02:47 +00:00
Commented Jun 7, 2012 at 17:02 — SLaks
– SLaks, Commented Jun 7, 2012 at 17:02

Paul · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07 17:02:03Z

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Use rawurlencode:

echo rawurlencode('Nomad Plus-G- cierno cervena.jpg');
// Nomad%20Plus-G-%20cierno%20cervena.jpg

If you're okay with spaces being encoded as + then just use urlencode instead.

answered Jun 7, 2012 at 17:02

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Adrian Over a year ago

I edited my question, but the result is same with rawurlencode. But why?

Paul Over a year ago

@Adrian You shouldn't encode the whole url, only the components that need encoding individually. You don't want to encode all the /s in your url, but if you wanted a / in a component you would encode it.

Adrian Over a year ago

Unfortunately I have some directories with space in their names, and this trick doesn't work. Please check my comment below.

Tornado · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07 17:19:47Z

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You could search for the last "/" and use urlencode for last part of your string, like that:

$pos=strrpos($url,"/")+1;
$newurl=substr($url,0,$pos) . rawurlencode(substr($url,$pos));

If your only problems are spaces, then you could use

str_replace(" ","%20",$url);

edited Jun 7, 2012 at 17:19

answered Jun 7, 2012 at 17:07

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Adrian Over a year ago

Thank you, this works until I have space in the directory name: d.pr/n/uRFH+ (code with comment)

Adrian · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-07 17:59:29Z

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str_replace('%2F','/',rawurlencode('url')); This is working.

answered Jun 7, 2012 at 17:59

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