I want to strip all spaces that are not between two words and then url-encode a string.
$string = " bah bah bah ";
$string = str_replace("/w /w", "+", $string);
// I want string to look like this:
$string = "bah+bah+bah";
The idea is that I want to get rid of all unnecessary spaces (not only at the beginning and end).
Can you not just trim whitespace and use urlencode()
to convert the interior spaces to +
? If you have other characters which cannot tolerate being url encoded, this will not work. But we don't know your full requirements.
urlencode(trim($string));
$string = " bah bah";
echo urlencode(trim($string));
// bah+bah