Drupal url encoding

Question

I am having trouble properly encoding URL data. Using the following code:

$redirect = drupal_urlencode("user/register?destination=/node/1");
drupal_goto( $redirect );

but, the URL that comes up in my browser test is the following:

http://testsite.com/user/register%253Fdestination%253D/node/1

I thought using the drupal_urlencode function should fix this encoding issue. How can I fix it?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '11 at 15:32

You'd be better off using the built in url() function to create your URL, if you pass an array as the query parameter it handles URL encoding for you:

$options = array(
  'absolute' => TRUE,
  'query' => array('destination' => '/node/1')
);
$redirect = url('user/register', $options);

drupal_goto( $redirect );

drupal_encode() will encode the whole string that you pass to it, so if you want to do it your original way it would look like this:

$redirect = 'user/register?' . drupal_urlencode("destination=/node/1");
drupal_goto( $redirect );

This is not entirely correct, as [`drupal_goto()`](http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_goto/6) uses the `url()` function itself on the passed in parameters. The right way would be to pass the query parameter array as the second parameter to `drupal_goto()`. — Henrik Opel, Dec 26 '11 at 10:34

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 05 '12 at 00:28

2

The simplest way of doing this in Drupal 6 is:

drupal_goto("user/register","destination=/node/1");

answered Jan 05 '12 at 00:28

lizbit

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 06 '13 at 09:58

0

The below code from Clive worked for me..

    $options = array(
  'absolute' => TRUE,
  'query' => array('destination' => '/node/1')
);
$redirect = url('user/register', $options);

drupal_goto( $redirect );

answered Feb 06 '13 at 09:58

mnik

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Drupal url encoding

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