Invalid characters in URLs

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Invalid characters in URLs

Trying to create sitemap generator

Karma

8:44 am on Apr 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hey all,

Another invalid character question!

I'm trying to develop my own sitemap generator. If I have a ¼ (1 quarter) symbol in the URL to be generated, I need to convert the symbol to a URL friendly equivalent. Previously, the 3rd part sitemap generator converted this symbol to ¼ yet I can only convert to ¼ using htmlspecialchars/htmlentities which Google rejects.

Any idea how to convert to the correct format?

Many thanks

breham

8:57 am on Apr 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi Karma,

Not sure how you're creating the string but couldn't you do a str_replace on the string?

Cheers
Brett

Karma

9:05 am on Apr 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I could, but I need to convert any invalid character to that 'version' character code, or any URL friendly format.