Using PHP Replace SPACES in URLS with

Question

I\'m looking to replace all instances of spaces in urls with %20. How would I do that with regex?

Thank you!

Answer 1

I think you must use rawurlencode() instead urlencode() for your purpose.

sample

$image = 'some images.jpg';
$url   = 'http://example.com/'

With urlencode($str) will result

echo $url.urlencode($image); //http://example.com/some+images.jpg

its not change to %20 at all

but with rawurlencode($image) will produce

echo $url.rawurlencode(basename($image)); //http://example.com/some%20images.jpg