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PHP URL encoding retaining invalid url characters

I use a form similiar below in admin panel . Where admin can login and post status(uses both database and file system).

<form method="post" action="post.php">
Title : <input type="text" name="title">
Content : <textarea name="status" rows="10" cols="60"></textarea>
</form>

In post.php

$title = trim(strip_tags($_REQUEST['title']));

If an admin posts a status. A folder will be create with the entered title and the title name is stored in mysql database. But when an admin use Special characters like “?” , the url is encoded something like this http://example.com/title? and it shows 404 not found. So how can i replace special characters of title element to entity number.

It will be helpful if the answer is in php

Answer 1

Try this

$title = trim(strip_tags($_POST[‘title’]));

followed by

urlencode($title);

Should do what you need.

http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php