encodeUrl

This method encodes a string for safe use in URLs using RFC 3986 via PHP’s rawurlencode().

It percent-encodes all characters except A-Z a-z 0-9 - _ . ~, encodes spaces as %20, and correctly handles UTF-8 multibyte characters.

Usage

$query = 'Love & PHP';
$query = SM::encodeUrl($query);
// or
$query = SM::make($query)
    ->encodeUrl();

echo $query; // Love%20%26%20PHP

More examples

echo SM::encodeUrl('user@example.com');
// user%40example.com

echo SM::encodeUrl('Hello World!  #test');
// Hello%20World%21%20%20%23test

echo SM::encodeUrl('Café Münster');
// Caf%C3%A9%20M%C3%BCnster

// Multi-step URL building for complex APIs
$endpoint = SM::make('/api')
    ->append('/v1/users/')
    ->append(SM::make($email)->encodeUrl())
    ->append('/posts/')
    ->append(SM::make($postSlug)->encodeUrl());