PHP urlencode not working as intended

Question

I have a URL with space characters that I want to properly encode when making an API call (in this case replace ' ' with '%20' so the space characters are treated properly.

$url = 'https://www.someapi.com?param=this and that';

Hoever when using the urlencode($url) function I get this obscure representation of the URL

"https%3A%2F%2..."

That I eventually cannot resolve.

........

Is there a URL-encode function in PHP that just replaces spaces and quotation marks instead of making abrupt changes to the whole string?

You don't want to encode the entire thing, just: $url = 'https://www.someapi.com?param='.urlencode('this and that');. You're not encoding a URL you are encoding data to be used in a URL. — AbraCadaver
– AbraCadaver, Commented Feb 6, 2017 at 18:30
how is this answer? stackoverflow.com/a/55160197/8058753 it can encode also path. — harufumi.abe
– harufumi.abe, Commented Mar 14, 2019 at 10:33

Ahmet Erkan ÇELİK · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-06 19:56:59Z

You can parse request url and only encode query string "values".

$url = "https://www.someapi.com?param=this and that"; $baseUrl = explode("?",$url)[0]; parse_str(parse_url($url,PHP_URL_QUERY),$args); foreach ($args as $key=>&$arg){ $arg= urlencode($arg); } echo $baseUrl."?".http_build_query($args);

Result:

https://www.someapi.com?param=this%2Band%2Bthat

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