Url encode

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Function Syntax

string url_encode(string source )

• source is the original to encode

Returns the encoded version of the supplied source string with all non-alphanumeric characters replaced with the standard URI-encoded escape sequences. For example, spaces are replaced with "+" and other special characters are replaced by "%" followed by a two-digit (hexadecimal) character code.

See Also

to_url() | url_decode()

More Information

See the w3c page here for more info.

Special

String converted by this function can be returned to their original form with url_decode().