explode() and escaped characters?

[jlizarraga]

Hi all,

So I have some URLs that look like this:

/details/Type+Year+Make+Model+Trim+VIN

I then explode() everything after "/details/" using "+" as the delimiter.

Problem is, today I’m encountering some data where the "Trim" part has a "+" in it. Here’s the string in question:

New+2010+Kia+Soul+2.0L I4 ++KNDJT2A2XA7105256

To try and solve this, I escaped the + like so:

New+2010+Kia+Soul+2.0L I4 %2B+KNDJT2A2XA7105256

When I explode() this string, PHP recognizes the "%2B" as a "+" and treats it as a delimiter.

How can I escape the "+" so that explode() won’t treat it as a delimiter?

Thanks!

[jlizarraga]

For the Googlers:

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/show … hp?t=54398

[jlizarraga]

"TT_Mark" wrote:

Don’t think you can?

Any reason you cannot just use another delimeter?

These URLs are for SEO, so the delimiter options were limited to space/%20, – (hyphen/dash/minus/etc), . (period), ant + (plus sign). AFAIK, these are your options for characters that search engines will treat as spaces. Prior to this incident, "+" was the ONLY one of these delimiters that didn’t show up in our data.

[Rob MacKay]

why don’t you use urlencode() urldecode() :)

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

and then

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php

[jlizarraga]

Because when you explode(), PHP still treats the encoded version as a delimiter.

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