note 47591 added to function.urlencode

I have problem when using special charactes e.g. $,#, etc when redirecting in link with GET variable. for a variable that will hold "me & friend". it will cause misinterpreting when using GET method: <? $val="me & friend"; ?> <a href="test.php?info=<?=$val?>">Click here</a> you will not get the expected value in test.php, to solve this I suggested the following function which will encode the variable to make it suitable for GET method. function encodeURLx($instr) { for($i=0;$i<strlen($instr);$i++) { $ch=substr($instr,$i,1); switch($ch) { case chr(9): case chr(32): case chr(34): case chr(44): case chr(40): case chr(41): case chr(58): case chr(59): case chr(60): case chr(62): case chr(64): case chr(124): case chr(47): case chr(92): case chr(35): case chr(37): case chr(38): case chr(43): case chr(61): case chr(63): $hx= "%" . sprintf("%0x",ord($ch)); $tmp.=$hx; break; default: $tmp.=$ch; } } return $tmp; } $val=encodeURLx($val); ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+47591 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes Reason: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes&reason=bad+code Reason: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes&reason=spam Reason: useless example -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes&reason=useless+example Reason: contains commercial links -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes&reason=contains+commercial+links Reason: useless note -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+47591&report=yes&reason=useless+note Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+47591&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php