Question

I need to put greek letters into a URL, for example: http://www.example.com?id=σκ
I have the string σκ like this: σκ
What function can I use in PHP to convert from σκ to σκ?

Thank you,
phpheini

Answer 1

Use html_entity_decode AND urlencode – because you shouldn’t put special greek characters to the url.

$str = html_entity_decode('σκ', ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');
// $str is 'σκ'
$str = urlencode($str);
// $str is '%CF%83%CE%BA'

$link = 'http://www.example.com?id=' . $str;