php javascript url encoding

Question

I have a html text. I had encoded it in php using urlencode function. I want to decode that text in the javascript. when i use unescape function in javascript it replaces all the special characters back but sapce is replaced by '+'. how can i do it correctly so that space is replaced as space itself???

Answer 1

Try using rawurlencode instead - urlencode does some things differently for "historical" reasons.

See http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php for more information.

Answer 2

PHP rawUrlEncode() == JavaScript encodeURIComponent()

PHP rawUrlDecode() == JavaScript decodeURIComponent()

Answer 3

Parenthesis are exceptions to all of what is said in this post.

geek mode on :

false

PHP rawUrlEncode() !== JavaScript encodeURIComponent()

but true

PHP rawUrlEncode() == JavaScript encodeURIComponent()

In other words, there are many special characters that aren't treated as safe in rawurlencode when they are in encodeURIComponent.

Answer 4

Try this:

return decodeURIComponent((str + '').replace(/\+/g, '%20'));

Source: http://phpjs.org/functions/urldecode:572