I am trying to encode a phrase in order to pass it inside a URL. Currently it works fine with basic words, where spaces are replaces with dashes.
<a href="./'.str_replace(' ', '-', preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9- ]/", '', $phrase)).'">
It produces something like:
/this-is-my-phase
On the page that this URL takes me I am able to replace the dashes with spaces and query my db for this phrase.
The problem I have is if the phrase contains apostrophe. My current script removes it. Is there any way to preserve it or replace with some URL-friendly character to accommodate something like?
this is bob's page