note 83693 deleted from function.urlencode by googleguy

Note Submitter: muthuishere at gmail dot com ---- Most of us may need a function if they have entire URL but you need to be encoding only the query values , not the URL and not the parameters The below function takes an URL as input and applies url encoding only to the parameter values /****************************************** For eg www.google.com/?q=alka rani&start=100 urlencode ==> www.google.com/search?q=alka+rani&start=100 if you change it to rawurlencode ==> www.google.com/search?q=alka%20rani&start=100 **************************************/ function SmartUrlEncode($url){ //Extract the Querystr pos after ? mark $startpos = stripos($url, "?"); //Extract the URl alone $tmpurl=substr($url, 0 , $startpos+1) ; //echo $tmpurl . "<br>"; //Extract the Querystr alone $qryStr=substr($url, $startpos+1 ) ; //echo $qryStr . "<br>"; //Split the querystring into & pairs $qryvalues=explode("&", $qryStr); foreach($qryvalues as &$value) { //Split the single data into two i.e data | value $buffer=explode("=", $value); // Urlencode only the value now , Change it to rawurlencode if necessary $buffer[1]=urlencode($buffer[1]); //Join values back in the array $value = implode("=", $tmp); } //Output Querystr ,Join all the pairs with & $finalqrystr=implode("&", $qryvalues); // echo $finalqrystr . "<br>"; $finalURL=$tmpurl . $finalqrystr; //echo $finalURL . "<br>"; return finalURL; } }