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using php to encode characters for mailto in javascript?

I am using window.location.href = 'mailto:?body=visit http://example.com/?content=link';

which works fine, but the way the link is built is window.location.href = 'mailto:?body=<?php echo $content; ?>';

now this works fine unless $content contains ' or something similar which breaks the code.

How can I make this work?

Solution

  • Use the rawurlencode function[php docs] to encode any characters in your input that aren't valid in URLs. 

    <?php $content = "Hello, this' an...\n\nexample!"; ?>
window.location.href = "mailto:?body=<?php echo rawurlencode($content); ?>";
    Output: 
    window.location.href = "mailto:?body=Hello%2C%20this%27%20an...%0A%0Aexample%21";

    It is true that you normally would want to use addslashes[php docs] when you're putting something in a quoted string. In this case it would have no effect because the output of rawurlencode doesn't have any characters that need to be escaped with slashes.