Question

i am trying to change any ‘ ‘ by a ‘-‘

i am doing like this:

 $tagname = $taginfo[1];   /* something like $tagname = 'A tag with spaces' */
 $tagurl = urlencode($tagname);
 $tagsize = 9 + intval($numtags)*2;
 $bla = 'function("'.str_replace(' ','-',$tagname).'")';

$bla is going to be used to be attached to the onclick attribute

any idea why the result would be

onclick="function('A tag with spaces')"

instead of

onclick="function('A-tag-with-spaces')" 

? may the htmlspecialchars have to do something with it?

Answer 1

urlencode($tagname); would turn your white spaces into %20 so your string would then be

A%20tag%20with%20spaces

You could either replace %20 with - or do the replace before the encoding.