Question

I am generating a feed using Zend Framework.

When I am setting a link like the one below, I get an error

$feed = new Zend_Feed_Writer_Feed;
$url = "http://www.example.com/search?s=chris|gayle|pics&device=1"
$feed->setLink($url);

I searched through Zend_Uri.php and Http.php, I was not able to figure out the problem.

exception ‘Zend_Feed_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid parameter:
parameter must be a non-empty string and valid URI/IRI’

Answer 1

| is not allowed. Use %7C instead.

For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding#Types_of_URI_characters

To encode a url use urlencode. This will make sure all characters are correctly encoded into a standard URI.

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