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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

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

//  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 CkMime();

$success = $mime->SetBodyFromPlainText('name=John Doe & city=New York');
if ($success == false) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

$encodedBody = $mime->getBodyDecoded();
if ($mime->get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
    print $mime->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print $encodedBody . "\n";

?>