cvs: phpdoc /en/reference/url/functions urlencode.xml

vrana Tue Apr 19 06:01:48 2005 EDT Modified files: /phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions urlencode.xml Log: urlencode can't produce & (spotted by Michal Molhanec) http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml?r1=1.7&r2=1.8&ty=u Index: phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml:1.7 phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml:1.8 --- phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml:1.7 Wed Jan 28 19:35:32 2004 +++ phpdoc/en/reference/url/functions/urlencode.xml Tue Apr 19 06:01:45 2005 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ --> +<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ --> <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/url.xml, last change in rev 1.2 --> <refentry id="function.urlencode"> <refnamediv> @@ -42,14 +42,15 @@ 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: - <ulink url="&url.argsep;">&url.argsep;</ulink> PHP supports + <ulink url="&url.argsep;">&url.argsep;</ulink>. 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;amp; instead of &amp; as the separator. You don't need to change PHP's arg_separator for this. Leave it as &amp;, but simply encode - your URLs using htmlentities(urlencode($data)). + your URLs using <function>htmlentities</function> or + <function>htmlspecialchars</function>. </para> <para> <example> @@ -57,7 +58,8 @@ <programlisting role="php"> <![CDATA[ <?php -echo '<a href="mycgi?foo=', htmlentities(urlencode($userinput)), '">'; +$query_string = 'foo=' . urlencode($foo) . '&bar=' . urlencode($bar); +echo '<a href="mycgi?' . htmlentities($query_string) . '">'; ?> ]]> </programlisting>