javascript equivalent of URLENCODE??

[sneakyimp]

hi everyone:

i have a set of pages that let users upload images. Rather than letting some poor user upload a huge image file only to find that it already exists, i set up some PHP and javascript that lets users click BROWSE to locate a file and then the javascript and PHP cooperate to see if a file with that name has already been uploaded. when they select a file, i run some javascript that reloads a PHP script into an iframe with the selected image as query string. That PHP script receives the pathname via GET and checks to make sure the user hasn't already uploaded a picture with the same name.

My problem is that I need to URLENCODE the selected image's path with my javascript function for it to work properly. does anyone know the javascript equivalent of URLENCODE?

[AtroZ]

Hi there!. There is not an equivalent to urlencode in javascript, at least I don´t know one, but you can use a combination of escape js function and RegExp to get what you are looking for, something like

function doUrlEncode(str)
{
	regular = new RegExp("/","g");
	val = escape(str);
	val = val.replace(regular,"%2F");
	return val;
}

and you just call it with your urls as the argument.