Since PHP 5.3.0, urlencode and rawurlencode also differ in that rawurlencode does not encode ~ (tilde), while urlencode does.
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
urlencode — 编码 URL 字符串
$str
)此函数便于将字符串编码并将其用于 URL 的请求部分，同时它还便于将变量传递给下一页。
str要编码的字符串。
返回字符串，此字符串中除了 -_. 之外的所有非字母数字字符都将被替换成百分号（%）后跟两位十六进制数，空格则编码为加号（+）。此编码与 WWW 表单 POST 数据的编码方式是一样的，同时与 application/x-www-form-urlencoded 的媒体类型编码方式一样。由于历史原因，此编码在将空格编码为加号（+）方面与 » RFC3896 编码（参见 rawurlencode()）不同。
Example #1 urlencode() 例子
<?php
echo '<a href="mycgi?foo=', urlencode($userinput), '">';
?>
Example #2 urlencode() 与 htmlentities() 例子
<?php
$query_string = 'foo=' . urlencode($foo) . '&bar=' . urlencode($bar);
echo '<a href="mycgi?' . htmlentities($query_string) . '">';
?>
Note:
注意：小心与 HTML 实体相匹配的变量。像 &、© 和 £ 都将被浏览器解析，并使用实际实体替代所期待的变量名。这是明显的混乱，W3C 已经告诫人们好几年了。参考地址：» http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2。
PHP 通过 arg_separator.ini 指令，支持将参数分割符变成 W3C 所建议的分号。不幸的是大多数用户代理并不发送分号分隔符格式的表单数据。较为简单的解决办法是使用 & 代替 & 作为分隔符。你不需要为此修改 PHP 的 arg_separator。让它仍为 &，而仅使用 htmlentities() 或 htmlspecialchars() 对你的 URL 进行编码。
Since PHP 5.3.0, urlencode and rawurlencode also differ in that rawurlencode does not encode ~ (tilde), while urlencode does.
if you have a url like this: test-blablabla-4>3-y-3<6 or with any excluded US-ASCII Characters (see chapter 2.4.3 on http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) you can use urlencode two times for fix the 403 error.
Example:
.htaccess
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test-(.*)$ index.php?token=$1
index.php
<?php
var_dump($_GET);
$foo = 'test-bla-bla-4>2-y-3<6';
$foo_encoded = urlencode(urlencode($foo));
?>
<a href="<?=$foo_encoded;?>"><?=$foo_encoded;?></a>
look on index.php
array (size=0)
empty
test-bla-bla-4%253E2-y-3%253C6
look on test-bla-bla-4%253E2-y-3%253C6
array (size=1)
'token' => string 'bla-bla-4>2-y-3<6' (length=17)
test-bla-bla-4%253E2-y-3%253C6
the problem is that the characters are decoded 2 times, 1 single, the first time mod_rewrite, the second is to create the php $ _GET array.
also, you can use this technique to the same as the complex functions of other notes.
Below is our jsonform source code in mongo db which consists a lot of double quotes. we are able to pass this source code to the ajax form submit function by using php urlencode :
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
// Generate a form using jquery.dfrom
$("#myform").dform({
"html":[
{
"type":"p",
"html":"Patient Record"
},
{
"name":"patient.name.first",
"id":"txt-patient.name.first",
"caption":"first name",
"type":"text",
},
{
"name":"patient.name.last",
"id":"txt-patient.name.last",
"caption":"last name",
"type":"text",
},
{
"type" : "submit",
}
]
});
});
</script>
<form id="myform">
<?php
//get the json source code from the mongodb
$jsonform= urlencode($this->data['Post']['jsonform']);
?>
//AJAX SUBMIT FORM
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#myform').submit(function(){
// passing the variable fro PHP to javascript
var thejsonform="<?php echo $jsonform ?>";
//var fname = $('input#fname').val();
var dataString = "jsonform=" + thejsonform ;
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
// url: "test1.php",
data: dataString,
success: function() {
}
});
return false;
});
Simple static class for array URL encoding
[code]
<?php
/**
*
* URL Encoding class
* Use : urlencode_array::go() as function
*
*/
class urlencode_array
{
/** Main encoding worker
* @param string $perfix
* @param array $array
* @param string $ret byref Push record to return array
* @param mixed $fe Is first call to function?
*/
private static function encode_part($perfix, $array, &$ret, $fe = false)
{
foreach ( $array as $k => $v )
{
switch ( gettype($v))
{
case 'float' :
case 'integer' :
case 'string' : $ret [ $fe ? $k : $perfix.'['.$k.']' ] = $v; break;
case 'boolean' : $ret [ $fe ? $k : $perfix.'['.$k.']' ] = ( $v ? '1' : '0' ); break;
case 'null' : $ret [ $fe ? $k : $perfix.'['.$k.']' ] = 'NULL'; break;
case 'object' : $v = (array) $v;
case 'array' : self::encode_part( $fe?$perfix.$k:$perfix.'['.$k.']' , $v, $ret, false); break;
}
}
}
/** UrlEncode Array
* @param mixed $array Array or stdClass to encode
* @returns string Strings ready for send as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
*/
public static function go($array)
{
$buff = array();
if ( gettype($array) == 'object') $array = (array) $array;
self::encode_part('', $array, $buff, true);
$retn = '';
foreach ( $buff as $k => $v )
$retn .= urlencode($k) . '=' . urlencode($v) . '&';
return $retn;
}
}
#-------------------------------- TEST AREA ------------------------------------
$buffer = array(
'master' =>'master.zenith.lv',
'join' =>array('slave'=>'slave1.zenith.lv','slave2'=>array('node1.slave2.zenith.lv','slave2.zenith.lv')),
'config' => new stdClass()
);
$buffer['config']->MaxServerLoad = 200;
$buffer['config']->MaxSlaveLoad = 100;
$buffer['config']->DropUserNoWait = true;
$buffer = urlencode_array::go($buffer);
parse_str( $buffer , $data_decoded);
header('Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=gb2312');
echo 'Encoded String :' . str_repeat('-', 80) . "\n";
echo $buffer;
echo str_repeat("\n", 3) . 'Decoded String byPhp :' . str_repeat('-', 80) . "\n";
print_r($data_decoded);
[/code]
urlencode function and rawurlencode are mostly based on RFC 1738.
However, since 2005 the current RFC in use for URIs standard is RFC 3986.
Here is a function to encode URLs according to RFC 3986.
<?php
function myUrlEncode($string) {
$entities = array('%21', '%2A', '%27', '%28', '%29', '%3B', '%3A', '%40', '%26', '%3D', '%2B', '%24', '%2C', '%2F', '%3F', '%25', '%23', '%5B', '%5D');
$replacements = array('!', '*', "'", "(", ")", ";", ":", "@", "&", "=", "+", "$", ",", "/", "?", "%", "#", "[", "]");
return str_replace($entities, $replacements, urlencode($string));
}
?>
I wrote this simple function that creates a GET query (for URLS) from an array:
<?php
function encode_array($args)
{
if(!is_array($args)) return false;
$c = 0;
$out = '';
foreach($args as $name => $value)
{
if($c++ != 0) $out .= '&';
$out .= urlencode("$name").'=';
if(is_array($value))
{
$out .= urlencode(serialize($value));
}else{
$out .= urlencode("$value");
}
}
return $out . "\n";
}
?>
If there are arrays within the $args array, they will be serialized before being urlencoded.
Some examples:
<?php
echo encode_array(array('foo' => 'bar')); // foo=bar
echo encode_array(array('foo&bar' => 'some=weird/value')); // foo%26bar=some%3Dweird%2Fvalue
echo encode_array(array('foo' => 1, 'bar' => 'two')); // foo=1&bar=two
echo encode_array(array('args' => array('key' => 'value'))); // args=a%3A1%3A%7Bs%3A3%3A%22key%22%3Bs%3A5%3A%22value%22%3B%7D
?>
I needed a function in PHP to do the same job as the complete escape function in Javascript. It took me some time not to find it. But findaly I decided to write my own code. So just to save time:
<?php
function fullescape($in)
{
$out = '';
for ($i=0;$i<strlen($in);$i++)
{
$hex = dechex(ord($in[$i]));
if ($hex=='')
$out = $out.urlencode($in[$i]);
else
$out = $out .'%'.((strlen($hex)==1) ? ('0'.strtoupper($hex)):(strtoupper($hex)));
}
$out = str_replace('+','%20',$out);
$out = str_replace('_','%5F',$out);
$out = str_replace('.','%2E',$out);
$out = str_replace('-','%2D',$out);
return $out;
}
?>
It can be fully decoded using the unscape function in Javascript.
I needed encoding and decoding for UTF8 urls, I came up with these very simple fuctions. Hope this helps!
<?php
function url_encode($string){
return urlencode(utf8_encode($string));
}
function url_decode($string){
return utf8_decode(urldecode($string));
}
?>
Don't use urlencode() or urldecode() if the text includes an email address, as it destroys the "+" character, a perfectly valid email address character.
Unless you're certain that you won't be encoding email addresses AND you need the readability provided by the non-standard "+" usage, instead always use use rawurlencode() or rawurldecode().
When using XMLHttpRequest or another AJAX technique to submit data to a PHP script using GET (or POST with content-type header set to 'x-www-form-urlencoded') you must urlencode your data before you upload it. (In fact, if you don't urlencode POST data MS Internet Explorer may pop a "syntax error" dialog when you call XMLHttpRequest.send().) But, you can't call PHP's urlencode() function in Javascript! In fact, NO native Javascript function will urlencode data correctly for form submission. So here is a function to do the job fairly efficiently:
<?php /******
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.6">
// PHP-compatible urlencode() for Javascript
function urlencode(s) {
s = encodeURIComponent(s);
return s.replace(/~/g,'%7E').replace(/%20/g,'+');
}
// sample usage: suppose form has text input fields for
// country, postcode, and city with id='country' and so-on.
// We'll use GET to send values of country and postcode
// to "city_lookup.php" asynchronously, then update city
// field in form with the reply (from database lookup)
function lookup_city() {
var elm_country = document.getElementById('country');
var elm_zip = document.getElementById('postcode');
var elm_city = document.getElementById('city');
var qry = '?country=' + urlencode(elm_country.value) +
'&postcode=' + urlencode(elm_zip.value);
var xhr;
try {
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); // recent browsers
} catch (e) {
alert('No XMLHttpRequest!');
return;
}
xhr.open('GET',('city_lookup.php'+qry),true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
if ((xhr.readyState != 4) || (xhr.status != 200)) return;
elm_city.value = xhr.responseText;
}
xhr.send(null);
}
</script>
******/ ?>
I'm running PHP version 5.0.5 and urlencode() doesn't seem to encode the "#" character, although the function's description says it encodes "all non-alphanumeric" characters. This was a particular problem for me when trying to open local files with a "#" in the filename as Firefox will interpret this as an anchor target (for better or worse). It seems a manual str_replace is required unless this was fixed in a future PHP version.
Example:
$str = str_replace("#", "%23", $str);
Like "Benjamin dot Bruno at web dot de" earlier has writen, you can have problems with encode strings with special characters to flash. Benjamin write that:
<?php
function flash_encode ($input)
{
return rawurlencode(utf8_encode($input));
}
?>
... could do the problem. Unfortunately flash still have problems with read some quotations, but with this one:
<?php
function flash_encode($string)
{
$string = rawurlencode(utf8_encode($string));
$string = str_replace("%C2%96", "-", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%91", "%27", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%92", "%27", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%82", "%27", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%93", "%22", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%94", "%22", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%84", "%22", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%8B", "%C2%AB", $string);
$string = str_replace("%C2%9B", "%C2%BB", $string);
return $string;
}
?>
... should solve this problem.
kL's example is very bugged since it loops itself and the encode function is two-way.
Why do you replace all %27 through ' in the same string in that you replace all ' through %27?
Lets say I have a string: Hello %27World%27. It's a nice day.
I get: Hello Hello 'World'. It%27s a nice day.
With other words that solution is pretty useless.
Solution:
Just replace ' through %27 when encoding
Just replace %27 through ' when decoding. Or just use url_decode.
Apache's mod_rewrite and mod_proxy are unable to handle urlencoded URLs properly - http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34602
If you need to use any of these modules and handle paths that contain %2F or %3A (and few other encoded special url characters), you'll have use a different encoding scheme.
My solution is to replace "%" with "'".
<?php
function urlencode($u)
{
return str_replace(array("'",'%'),array('%27',"'"),urlencode($u));
}
function urldecode($u)
{
return urldecode(strtr($u,"'",'%'));
}
?>
This very simple function makes an valid parameters part of an URL, to me it looks like several of the other versions here are decoding wrongly as they do not convert & seperating the variables into &.
$vars=array('name' => 'tore','action' => 'sell&buy');
echo MakeRequestUrl($vars);
/* Makes an valid html request url by parsing the params array
* @param $params The parameters to be converted into URL with key as name.
*/
function MakeRequestUrl($params)
{
$querystring=null;
foreach ($params as $name => $value)
{
$querystring=$name.'='.urlencode($value).'&'.$querystring;
}
// Cut the last '&'
$querystring=substr($querystring,0,strlen($querystring)-1);
return htmlentities($querystring);
}
Will output: action=sell%26buy&name=tore
Constructing hyperlinks safely HOW-TO:
<?php
$path_component = 'machine/generated/part';
$url_parameter1 = 'this is a string';
$url_parameter2 = 'special/weird "$characters"';
$url = 'http://example.com/lab/cgi/test/'. rawurlencode($path_component) . '?param1=' . urlencode($url_parameter1) . '¶m2=' . urlencode($url_parameter2);
$link_label = "Click here & you'll be <happy>";
echo '<a href="', htmlspecialchars($url), '">', htmlspecialchars($link_label), '</a>';
?>
This example covers all the encodings you need to apply in order to create URLs safely without problems with any special characters. It is stunning how many people make mistakes with this.
Shortly:
- Use urlencode for all GET parameters (things that come after each "=").
- Use rawurlencode for parts that come before "?".
- Use htmlspecialchars for HTML tag parameters and HTML text content.
Do not let the browser auto encode an invalid URL. Not all browsers perform the same encodeing. Keep it cross browser do it server side.
I was testing my input sanitation with some strange character entities. Ones like ? and ? were passed correctly and were in their raw form when I passed them through without any filtering.
However, some weird things happen when dealing with characters like (these are HTML entities): ‼ ▐ ┐and Θ have weird things going on.
If you try to pass one in Internet Explorer, IE will *disable* the submit button. Firefox, however, does something weirder: it will convert it to it's HTML entity. It will display properly, but only when you don't convert entities.
The point? Be careful with decorative characters.
PS: If you try copy/pasting one of these characters to a TXT file, it will translate to a ?.
Be careful when encoding strings that came from simplexml in PHP 5. If you try to urlencode a simplexml object, the script tanks.
I got around the problem by using a cast.
$newValue = urlencode( (string) $oldValue );
If you want to pass a url with parameters as a value IN a url AND through a javascript function, such as...
<a href="javascript:openWin('page.php?url=index.php?id=4&pg=2');">
...pass the url value through the PHP urlencode() function twice, like this...
<?php
$url = "index.php?id=4&pg=2";
$url = urlencode(urlencode($url));
echo "<a href=\"javascript:openWin('page.php?url=$url');\">";
?>
On the page being opened by the javascript function (page.php), you only need to urldecode() once, because when javascript 'touches' the url that passes through it, it decodes the url once itself. So, just decode it once more in your PHP script to fully undo the double-encoding...
<?php
$url = urldecode($_GET['url']);
?>
If you don't do this, you'll find that the result url value in the target script is missing all the var=values following the ? question mark...
index.php?id=4