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Doc Bug #36641 space encoding in urlencode / rawurlencode
Submitted: 2006-03-07 09:18 UTC Modified: 2006-03-07 10:06 UTC
From: sreinecke at feverxl dot de Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Documentation problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: all
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 [2006-03-07 09:18 UTC] sreinecke at feverxl dot de
Description:
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urlencode documentation:

Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits 

--> AND SPACES ENCODES AS PLUS (+) SIGNS <--. 

It is encoded the same way that the posted data from a WWW form is encoded, that is the same way as in application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. This DIFFERS from the RFC1738 encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, 

--> SPACES ARE ENCODED AS PLUS (+) SIGNS. <--

...

Where is the difference?

Thank you,

Steffen

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

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 [2006-03-07 09:35 UTC] vrana@php.net
urlencode() encodes space as +, RFC 1738 as %20.
 [2006-03-07 09:55 UTC] sreinecke at feverxl dot de
Yes, thats true. But the manual says wrongly that spaces are encoded as (+) signs in RFC1738.

see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
 [2006-03-07 10:06 UTC] vrana@php.net
Read it as "It differs from RFC 1738 in THAT spaces are encoded as +". Otherwise sentense would be "It differs from RFC 1738 WHERE spaces are encoded". Maybe it's a bit ambiguous but clear from context.
 
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