encoding url for blinklist

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.

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).

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

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

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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