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phptrimurlencode

Strip unwanted spaces then url_encode a string

I want to strip all spaces that are not between two words and then url-encode a string.

$string = "              bah bah    bah  ";
$string = str_replace("/w /w", "+", $string);
// I want string to look like this:
$string = "bah+bah+bah";

The idea is that I want to get rid of all unnecessary spaces (not only at the beginning and end).

Solution

  • Can you not just trim whitespace and use urlencode() to convert the interior spaces to +? If you have other characters which cannot tolerate being url encoded, this will not work. But we don't know your full requirements.

    urlencode(trim($string));


$string = "              bah bah";
echo urlencode(trim($string));

// bah+bah