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Ariyan
Ariyan

Reputation: 15158

Using htmlspecialchars on a URL

I have URLs in this format :

http://site.com/index.php?title=[SOME_UNICODE_TITLE]&id=[ID]&type=[TYPE]

When I try to use htmlspecialchars on this URL to encode unicode title the function encodes & too; so it will be &amp so variable name id is converted to ampid ! So I can't read it from code.

How can I use htmlspecialchars on a URL without converting URL specific chars (e.g. &,=,...)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4201

Answers (2)

PeeHaa
PeeHaa

Reputation: 72652

IMHO you should just use urlencode() for URLs, because that's what it is made for. If you cannot / do not want to use it and you always get a full URI. You could parse if before encoding it:

$uriParts = parse_url($fullUri);
$queryParts = array();
parse_str($uriParts['query'], $queryParts);

foreach($queryParts as $name => $value) {
    $queryParts[$name] = htmlspecialchars($value);

    // don't know whether you want to encode the key too
}

http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Example: http://codepad.viper-7.com/lIFiHB

Upvotes: 3

Blakdronzer
Blakdronzer

Reputation: 340

if u wana just encode the data, rather than appying htmlspecialchars to whole of the url, will recommend applying it exclusively to the content only. This way u will conserve the url with the special charecters in the data

Upvotes: 0

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