php converting blank spaces to + symbol

[php_begins]

hello. I need some help here.

 

I have dynamic variable that contains characters separated by blank spaces. I need to replace the blank space (%20) with a plus(+) sign) wherever it occurs.

For example, my variable  $label might contain

$label=one word.

when i echo $label it prints one%20word. I would like to print it as one+word.

 

Thanks in advance

[marcus]

echo str_replace(array('%20',' '),'+',$label);

[teynon]

mgallforevers code / response will work. However, I'm curious how you are setting those variables that have %20 in them. Can I see your code?

[php_begins]

Thanks mgallforever :-)

 

@teynon.. actually i am printing it in the url for searching purposes..so any blank space comes as %20!

[teynon]

That's pretty much why I asked. %20 is really only used in urls. If you are manually setting that, you are making more work for yourself. You should use urlencode on variables when sending them to the browser.

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

 

Then if you need to decode a url: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

 

Although for the most part you shouldn't ever have to use urldecode.

 

Example of urlencode:

 

<?php
   $variable=urlencode("my variable data & info");
   echo "<a href=\"url.php?variable={$variable}\">Go!</a>";
?>