note 46526 deleted from function.rawurlencode by sean

Note Submitter: Jesse%3Cjesse%40codery.com%3E ---- Oftentimes when building a user system for a site you ask users for a username which must not contain any spaces or punctuation. My reason for this, though it may not be the only reason, is so that I can use their usernames in URLs such as: mysite.com/users/username. So when a user is registering, rather than do a regex check for spaces and punctuation, I find it quicker and easier to use urlencode(). if(urlencode($username) != $username) echo "Your username may not contain spaces or punctuation"; If urlencode() changes the $username whatsoever, the condition will be met and the user will get the error. Just a shortcut, but a surefire way to make sure a user's chosen name will be usable in a URL later on. Like I said though, there may be other reasons, and characters that should be accounted for. ---- Reason: bad code