[SOLVED] Help encoding echo $download_link

[GridTrader]

Hi all. New here and pretty new to PHP. Very thankful to find this site. Will try to explain the best that I can. Thanks in advance anyone able to help 

 

In my template I have the following (bold area is what I am trying to address)

 

<a href="<? echo $download_link; ?>" class="download_link">

 

I want the output of these urls to be encoded so that I can run another php script in front of them for tracking clicks:

 

For example this $download_link puts out several random url's on a single page and one for example may look like this:

http://www.mysite.com/fx/index.php?file=1&sort=1

 

Once I add my clicking tracking script to the url it looks like this:

http://www.mysite.com/clicktrack/out.php?s=100&link=link1&url=http://www.mysite.com/fx/index.php?file=1&sort=1

 

I need an easy way to somehow encode the $download_link url so it will look like this:

http%3A//www.mysite.com/fx/index.php%3Ffile%3D1%26sort%3D1

 

Otherwise the tracking script doesn't work right unless the urls in front of it are first encoded.

 

Thank you,

 

Jon 

 

 

 

[oni-kun]

You can use PHP's urlencode(), But I believe the browser should already do that by default, nonetheless there it is.

[GridTrader]

Thank you but how would I go about entering that to my line of code?

I tried a few ways, but no luck.

 

<a href="<? echo urlencode($download_link); ?>" class="download_link">

 

 

Sorry, I'm a PhpNewbie

[oni-kun]

Try this. Some servers are mashy about shorthand tags..

<a href="<?php echo urlencode($download_link); ?>" class="download_link">

Urlencode should safely encode all HTML entities for you, that is what this feature is for. If you'd like to encode every possibly HTML entity then use htmlentities() on it instead.. but it shouldn't be needed for an url encoding.

 

Edit: I get this, I tried it myself.

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mysite.com%2Ffx%2Findex.php%3Ffile%3D1%26sort%3D1

[GridTrader]

<a href="<?php echo urlencode($download_link); ?>" class="download_link">

 

This works, Thanks!!