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Urlencode can be used to encode the given string that can be used as a url. Urlencode replaces the ASCII characters with % followed by two hexadecimal digits.

OR

Other non-alphanumeric characters are converted % followed by two hex digits representing the converted character.

Space characters are converted to + characters.

It is normally used when the browser sends form data to a web server.

Syntax of urlencode: urlencode (string $str )

For example:

$discount ="10.00%";
$url = "http://domain.com/submit.php?disc=".urlencode($discount);
echo $url;

You will get the below output:

"http://domain.com/submit.php?disc=10%2E00%25

Urldecode can be used to decode the string. Decodes any "%##"" encoding in the given string. It is normally used when the browser sends form data to a web server.

Syntax of urldecode: urldecode (string $str )