What is the equivalent of JavaScript’s encodeURIcomponent in PHP?
Try rawurlencode. Or to be more precise: function encodeURIComponent($str) { $revert = array(‘%21’=>’!’, ‘%2A’=>’*’, ‘%27’=>”‘”, ‘%28’=>'(‘, ‘%29’=>’)’); return strtr(rawurlencode($str), $revert); } This function works exactly how encodeURIComponent is defined: encodeURIComponent escapes all characters except the following: alphabetic, decimal digits, – _ . ! ~ * ‘ ( )