URLEncode()

encode an url


	URLEncode( string=string, charset=string, force=boolean );

Returns: String

Argument	Description	Default
string _{string, required}	String to encode
charset _{string, optional}	The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used as per https://www.w3.org/TR/html40/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars Using different charsets may cause incompatibilities with other systems.	utf-8
force _{boolean, optional}	If false, then the string will not be encoded if it does not contain unsafe characters.	true

Argument

Description

Default

string

_{string,

required}

String to encode

charset

_{string,

optional}

The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used as per https://www.w3.org/TR/html40/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars

Using different charsets may cause incompatibilities with other systems.

utf-8

force

_{boolean,

optional}

If false, then the string will not be encoded if it does not contain unsafe characters.

true

Examples

url_string = "https://dev.lucee.org/t/welcome-to-lucee-dev/2064";
dump(URLEncode(url_string)); // https%3A%2F%2Fdev%2Elucee%2Eorg%2Ft%2Fwelcome%2Dto%2Dlucee%2Ddev%2F2064

URLEncode()

Examples

See also