php urlencode encodes wrong?

Question

If I try to encode the url

http://herthabsc.de/index.php?id=3631&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=13144&cHash=9ef2e9ee006fb16188ebf764232a0ba9

with urlencode() or http_build_query() it gives me the result

http%3A%2F%2Fherthabsc.de%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D3631%26%23038%3Btx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D%3D13144%26%23038%3BcHash%3D9ef2e9ee006fb16188ebf764232a0ba9

But that's not what it should be. Is there a known bug? Or problems in use with wordpress?

What do you expect it to be? That's an encoded URL. Do you only wish to encode the querystring part of that URL? — Michael Berkowski
– Michael Berkowski, Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 19:55
the function works as described in the manual, it's your expectations that are wrong. — user557846
– user557846, Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 20:06
it actually has to be http%3A//herthabsc.de/index.php%3Fid%3D3631%26tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D%3D13144%26cHash%3D9ef2e9ee006fb16188ebf764232a0ba9 — Jonathan
– Jonathan, Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 20:07
And why is that so? The manual says: "Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits" - therefore replacing the slashes with %2F is the expected behavior. — Niko
– Niko, Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 20:17

Crashspeeder · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-05 13:41:12Z

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You've double encoded the URL. Running urldecode() on your output string is giving me the following: http://herthabsc.de/index.php?id=3631&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=13144&cHash=9ef2e9ee006fb16188ebf764232a0ba9

EDIT: try the following

urlencode(html_entity_decode('http://herthabsc.de/index.php?id=3631&#038;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=13144&#038;cHash=9ef2e9ee006fb16188ebf764232a0ba9'));

edited Apr 5, 2012 at 13:41

answered Apr 3, 2012 at 20:37

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kuba Over a year ago

yes, probably the poster is viewing the link in a browser, where it shows &#038 as a single ampersand character

Jonathan Over a year ago

I'm doing this in Google Chrome

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