Urlencode and file_get_contents

Question

We have an url like http://site.s3.amazonaws.com/images/some image @name.jpg inside $string

What I\'m trying to do (yes, there is a whitesp

Answer 1

Using function urlencode() for entire URL, will generate an invalid URL. Leaving the URL as it is also is not correct, because in contrast to the browsers, the file_get_contents() function don't perform URL normalization. In your example, you need to replace spaces with %20:

$string = str_replace(' ', '%20', $string);