PHP

URL-Encode a MIME Body

Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.UrlEncodeBody method, which replaces the current body with an application/x-www-form-urlencoded-style representation using the named charset. The only argument is the charset; it is a void method.

Background: This transforms the body into the form-encoding used by HTML form submissions — spaces to +, reserved characters to percent-escapes — interpreting the text through the given charset first so non-ASCII characters encode correctly. It is a niche operation for constructing form-style payloads within a MIME part.

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<?php

use Chilkat2\Mime;

// Demonstrates the Mime.UrlEncodeBody method, which replaces the current body with an
// application/x-www-form-urlencoded representation using the named charset.  The only argument is
// the charset.  It is a void method.

$mime = new Mime();

try {
    $mime->SetBodyFromPlainText('name=John Doe & city=New York');

    // URL-encode the body: spaces become "+", reserved characters become %-escapes.
    $mime->UrlEncodeBody('utf-8');

    $encodedBody = $mime->GetBodyDecoded();
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

echo $encodedBody, "\n";