urlencode except /

Question

Is there a way to urlencode except directory seperators / in the path ?

like

urlencode('/this/is/my/file right here.jpg');

Answer 1

Replace them again:

str_replace('%2F', '/', urlencode('/this/is/my/file right here.jpg'));

Note that if you are going to pass the result in a query string, you should not do the replacement above -- use only urlencode. If you are using it in the path portion, you ought to use rawurlencode instead.

Answer 2

This should solve your problem.

str_replace("%2F","/",urlencode('/this/is/my/file right here.jpg'));

Answer 3

$array = explode('/', '/this/is/my/file right here.jpg');
foreach ($array as &$value) {
        $value = urlencode($value);
}
print implode('/', $array);

Answer 4

You can use

• explode to split your path into the path segments,
• array_map to apply rawurlencode on each item (don’t use urlencode, that’s only for application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoded query arguments!), and
• implode to put the segments back together.

So all together in one line:

$path = implode('/', array_map('rawurlencode', explode('/', $path)));