encoding url for blinklist

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Hello,

I added the some buttons to my site to make it possible to add a link to sites like blinklist, example:
http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=32

because the links must be dynamic I have this code for the blink list button:

Code:

<a href="http://blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&amp;Description=
<?php echo urlencode(htmlentities($row_selected['short_descr'], ENT_QUOTES)); ?>
&amp;Url=<?php echo "http://www.finalwebsites.com/snippets.php?id=".$row_selected['id']; ?>
&amp;Title=<?php echo urlencode($opti_alt_txt); ?>" target="_blank">
<img src="images/Blink_Small_Button.gif" alt="Blink it! <?php echo $opti_alt_txt; ?>" width="80" height="18" /></a>

this code is w3 valid and works partly at blink list except the name field looks like this:
DB_cart Class %28shopping cart%29

I played already with lots of encoding functions, what next?

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Maybe write your own

Something like :

Code:

<?php
myUrlencode ( $txt )
{
 return str_replace ( '%28', '(', str_replace( '%29', ')', urlencode( $txt ) ) );
}

?>

I think this would work.

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hmm...
of course this is possible but what about other characters (like € and others), is there a way to convert a € to &euro; ?
(with a function not with replace)

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I am afraid that there is no function for this except if something like utf8encode can do that (I am not too familliar with those functions).

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Its' strange that this happens only for blinklist, the other furl, del.icio are working wel...

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but you gave me an idea (utf-8)... thanks

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I tried a little bit more, also the javascript link provided by blinklist. All with the same result the brackets are changed into "%28 %29"

look like to be a bug or maybe I have to encode my own site into utf-8... :-(

by the way utf8_encode is a good and often used function but in this case it will not work...

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