Help with urlencode function

Question

how I can make this function besides putting + in the spaces put -, and that it changes the %7C for | would anyone know? only in url

Below the Model of how this:

would like that in the url something like:

Wedding-Joao-+-Maria-|-Essay

Answer 1

I don’t recommend you do this, for the urlencode is made to ensure interoperability between the browser and the application, and the correct decoding depends on the characters being properly encoded (otherwise neither would be necessary urlencode).

Anyway, this will only cause problems, and when recovering the value by PHP application, will not be returned what you are waiting for.

But if that’s what you want, follow a way to change the URL:

$url = str_replace( '%7C', '|', $url );
$url = str_replace( '+', '-', $url );
$url = str_replace( '%2B', '+', $url );

See the result running as requested on IDEONE

Alternative syntax:

$de   = array( '%7C', '+', '%2B' ); // acrescente todos os
$para = array( '|'  , '-', '+'   ); // pares que quiser trocar
$url = str_replace( $de, $para, $url );

Function:

function leonardo_encode( $url ) {
   $de   = array( '%7C', '+', '%2B' );
   $para = array( '|'  , '-', '+'   );

   return str_replace( $de, $para, urlencode( $url ) );
}

rawurlencode vs urlencode

Important to consider that for what you are doing, the rawurlencode would be more appropriate than the urlencode.

• urlencode usually uses it when you’re messing with the query string, or post values:

  http://example.com/recurso?nome=dados+codificados
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  

• rawurlencode usually used when you are messing with the path/name of the URL resource:

  http://example.com/recurso/dados%20codificados
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^