Add spacing in string on click on anchor tag and displaying in next page url with spacing

Question

I have an anchor tag like as follows.

<a href="nextpage.php?name=Nike Baby Shoes">shoes</a>

What I want is, when I click on this link, it should go to next page and url should become like,

nextpage.php?name=Nike-Baby-Shoes

But I am not aware about how to put spacing in string while displaying in the url. Right now the url is coming like nextpage.php?name=Nike%20Baby%20Shoes.

Please guide me to do that.

Please check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/497908/are-urls-allowed-to-have-a-space-in-them — Jenz, May 23 '14 at 06:20
While it would be possible to change the string on click, it is a bad idea. You are adding the variable to the "name" at some stage. This is where you should be removing/replacing all the spaces. — mgrstnr, May 23 '14 at 06:24
What's wrong with `nextpage.php?name=Nike%20Baby%20Shoes`? If you check the `$_GET['name']` value in your `nextpage.php` script, it will just show up as "Nike Baby Shoes". Isn't that what you want? — Cully, May 23 '14 at 06:26
in the url,its coming with %20,i want to replace %20 with space from there. — user3615820, May 23 '14 at 06:29
Try doing this in your `nextpage.php` script: `echo $_GET['name'];` and see what comes up — Cully, May 23 '14 at 06:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '14 at 06:38

Your best bet is to just replace the spaces using PHP, when you output the link. For example:

$name = "Nike Baby Shoes";  // or use whatever variable you get the name from

$replaced = urlencode( str_replace(' ', '-', $name) );

echo "<a href='nextpage.php?name={$replaced}'>shoes</a>";

Add spacing in string on click on anchor tag and displaying in next page url with spacing

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