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1. gembel
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hello,

   I need help to urlencode the_title and the_category,

   for the_category, example:
   <?php the_category(); ?> output will be My Category Name Here
   what i need for the output is My+Category+Name+Here

   same case for the_title, example:
   <?php the_title(); ?> output will be My Post Title Here
   what i need for the output is My+Post+Title+Here

   I hope you guys understand what i mean, Thanks!

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   instead of the_category and the_title, use

   $my_cat = get_the_category();
   and
   $my_title = get_the_title();

   They store the output to variables instead of echoing it.

   Then you can use regular PHP urlencode on the variables.

3. gembel
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi stvwlf, thanks for your reply, can you give me an example final code for the output i needed? Thanks again

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   <?php echo urlencode( get_the_title() ); ?>

   the_category is different - if a post is in multiple categories it returns a list of all of them. To display the first one in the list encoded:
   

   <?php
   $category = get_the_category();
   echo urlencode($category[0]->cat_name);
   ?>

   displaying all of them requires a loop
   

   <?php
   foreach((get_the_category()) as $category) {
       echo urlencode($category->cat_name);
   }
   ?>

5. gembel
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks stvwlf, its work! how about the_title? i found this code on google
   <?php echo urlencode(the_title('','', false)) ?>
   this code works, but doo you have better code for urlencode the_title? Thank you so much!

6. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   The very first line in my previous answer is the code for the title

   <?php echo urlencode( get_the_title() ); ?>`

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