Making a link from variables with spaces in (PHP)

[theMAD2]

I am passing variables from a form to make a link, but one of the fields may contain spaces. Is there anyway to convert the spaces in the string when making the link into the "%20" bit?

Thanks,

 

[Lt. Manlove]

I think, but a long shot

$link = "http://www.site.com/Foo bar";
$link = str_replace(" ", "%20", "$link");

Would output http://www.site.com/Foo bar

 

[Dj_Jestar]

urlencode()

 

[Lt. Manlove]

urlencode()

Learn something new every day

 

[theMAD2]

Just found that too. Does this work with or instead of htmlentities() ?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

It performs a different task.

urlencode() encodes the string ready for use in a URI/URL.

htmlentities() encodes the string ready for use as literal output to the user-agent, replacing < and > with &lt; and &gt; respectively, amongst other char's. This would also need to be urlencode()'ed because the ampersand and semi-colon are not valid URL characters.

 

[theMAD2]

Thanks everyone, it's worked a treat! Good ole PHP, eh