I have a form that when submitted loads in the post id into a variable. However some of the options in the form have spaces between the words. For example
one option is "Kanye West" now it loads into the variable the words Kanye and West with a space inbetween.
I need to be able to add a + symbol between these two words instead of a space. So it would be Kanye+West. How would i go about doing this?
Simple case: strtr()
$str = strtr($str, ' ', '+');
Generic: urlencode()
$str = urlencode($str);
Unless I'm misunderstanding the question.
The urlencode function was designed exactly for this purpose. It converts all special characters (including space) to their url-safe equivalents (e.g. +).
$artistResult = urlencode($_POST['select']); (Not too tough, eh?)
$artistResult = urlencode($_POST['select']);, with $_POST['select'] = 'Kanye West' giving $artistResult = 'Kanye+West'. (Edit: Too slow ... again.)You can use strtr():
$str = strtr(trim($str), ' ', '+');
If you want to replace several consecutive white space characters with one +, use preg_replace:
$str = preg_replace('/\s+/','+', trim($str));
Try str_replace(' ', '+', $originalString) on the PHP side before output.
You can use:
$my_new_string = str_replace(" ", "+", $my_oldstring)
$str = 'Kanye West';
$str = str_replace(' ', '+', $str);
