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Encode And Decode URL Using PHP

Last Updated : Jul 1, 2023

IN - PHP HTML | Written & Updated By - Pragati

In this tutorial we will show you how to encode and decode url using PHP. Encoding and decoding is required before sending and after sending the url to replace some special characters from url.

Encode And Decode URL Using PHP

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To Encode And Decode URL It Takes Only Three Steps:-

  1. Make a HTML file and define markup
  2. Make a PHP file to encode and decode url
  3. Make a CSS file and define styling

Step 1. Make a HTML file and define markup

We make a HTML file and save it with a name url.html 

<html>
<head>
<link href="url_style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">

<div id="url_div">
 <form method="post" action="encode_decode.php">
 <input type="text" name="url" placeholder="Enter URL To Encode">
 <input type="submit" name="encode_url" value="ENCODE">
 </form>

 <form method="post" action="encode_decode.php">
 <input type="text" name="url" placeholder="Enter URL To Decode">
 <input type="submit" name="decode_url" value="DECODE">
 </form>
</div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

In this step we create two forms one for to enter url for encoding and another is for url decoding and they send the url to 'encode_decode.php' page.

Step 2. Make a PHP file to encode and decode url

We make a PHP file and save it with a name encode_decode.php 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['encode_url']))
{
 $url = $_POST['url'];
 $encodedUrl = urlencode($url);
 $converted_url=$encodedUrl;
}

if(isset($_POST['decode_url']))
{
 $url = $_POST['url'];
 $decodedUrl = urldecode($url);
 $converted_url=$decodedUrl;
}
?>

In this step we create two isset() conditions to encode and decode the urls. In first condition we get url value and encode url using php urlencode() function. In second condition we use urldecode() function to decode url.

Step 3. Make a CSS file and define styling

We make a CSS file and save it with a name url_style.css 

body
{
 margin:0 auto;
 padding:0px;
 text-align:center;
 width:100%;
 font-family: "Myriad Pro","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,Sans-Serif;
 background-color:#D6EAF8;
}
#wrapper
{
 margin:0 auto;
 padding:0px;
 text-align:center;
 width:995px;
}
#wrapper h1
{
 margin-top:50px;
 font-size:45px;
 color:#3498DB;
}
#wrapper h1 p
{
 font-size:18px;
}
#url_div input[type="text"]
{
 width:300px; 
 height:35px;
 border:1px solid #AED6F1;
 padding-left:10px;
 font-size:17px;
}
#url_div input[type="submit"]
{
 background-color:#3498DB;
 border:none;
 width:100px;
 height:35px;
 color:white;
}

That's all, this is how to encode and decode url using PHP.You can customize this code further as per your requirement. And please feel free to give comments on this tutorial.

I hope this tutorial on php url encode and php url decode helps you and the steps and method mentioned above are easy to follow and implement.

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Experienced coding content writer who enjoys breaking down complex concepts in programming languages like Java, Python, C, and C++. Over three years of experience producing interesting and relevant content for a variety of entities. Committed to providing concise and easy-to-understand articles that assist readers in easily understanding technology and industry trends in the world of coding and software development.

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