I have a value in variable as follows...
$variable = "chicken soup.jpg";
when i do the following, spaces are converted to a + symbol in the output
$body = "www.abc.com/" . $variable
mail($to, $subject, $body,$headers)
Output in mail received: www.abc.com/chicken+soup.jpg
But i want the output as below ? Please help
Expected Output : www.abc.com/chicken%20soup.jpg or www.abc.com/chicken soup.jpg
i tried using str_replace function but no luck
I'm pretty sure, if your email-client supports to view the plain source of that message, you'll se that the url is "www.abc.com/chicken soup.jpg"; only your browser / email client encodes it, as it's an invalid URL.
If you want to produce a valid url, encode it manually with:
$body = 'www.abc.com/' . urlencode( $variable );
// this will be 'www.abc.com/chicken+soup.jpg' as this is a valid url
or:
$body = 'www.abc.com/' . rawurlencode( $variable );
// this will be 'www.abc.com/chicken%20soup.jpg'
Edit:
You can read more about the difference:
rawurlencode())application/x-www-form-urlencoded (or form post) encoding (urlencode())This is because all urls are encoded. It may be your E-Mail client recieves 'chicken soup.jpg' but parses it as an url and so it gets 'chicken+soup.jpg' as ' ' in urls are not valid.
Your solution is to use urlencode() on the filename variable. This will convert spaces and other non-URL-friendly characters into %20 et al so that it can be used as part of a valid URL.
Example:
$variable = urlencode("chicken soup.jpg"); echo $variable;
Output:
chicken%20soup.jpg
Check the the urlencode() documentation for more information.