urlencode()

urlencode - URL-encodes string

Syntax

string urlencode (string $str)

Arguments

• str - The string to be encoded.

Description

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.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

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-urlencodedmedia type. This differs from the » RFC 1738encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, spaces are encoded as plus (+) signs.