[RESOLVED] URLencode utf-8 or ISO-8859-1

rlalande

Hello

I need to URL encode a variable before passing it to a server (xml using curl).
When I just use urlencode($data), it doesn't work.

Help!

Rock

halojoy

'doesn't work'
... so you say your script crashes completely?

I dont know what is your issue, but there can be some.
Read comments at [man]urlencode[/man]

rlalande

It needs to be encoded in utf-8... I think urlencode uses another standard?

rlalande

According to the people who host the server where my XML request is being sent, the "&" character needs to be converted to "&", but urlencode is giving me "%24".

Any ideas?

Rock

troybtj

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php

htmlentities uses ISO-8859-1 by default, but takes an option to encode UTF-8

NogDog

Do not urlencode the entire URL. Instead, just the values of the query string variables, e.g.:

$url = sprintf(
   'http://www.example.com/webservice.php?var1=%s&amp;var2=%s',
   urlencode($value1),
   urlencode($value2)
);

Or, if you don't like using sprintf():

$url = 'http://www.example.com/webservice.php?var1=' .
       urlencode($value1) . '&amp;var2=' . urlencode($value2);