escape spaces in id attributes or deleting them in php section

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i get different string (like a, b, hospital, schools, jobs to work etc. ) as $divname from my db in my PHP section. i use this values as id in mydiv elemnents.

<div id="'.$divname.'"></div>

there is no problem for $divname = a, b, hospital or school but when it comes to jobs to work there is a huge problem cause my id gets spaces and it returns an error to me.

<div id="jobs to work"></div> //as evryone state spaces in id variable is an error.

now my question i need use this $divame variables in my id attribute. how can i do this? how can i delete those spaces or any more idea for using those in id attributes are welcome.

use htmlentities maybe ? http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php — Maximus2012, Feb 28 '14 at 17:50
or you can replace the space with underscore or something before assigning the names to the div elements. — Maximus2012, Feb 28 '14 at 17:51
possible duplicate of [How to strip all spaces out of a string in php?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2109325/how-to-strip-all-spaces-out-of-a-string-in-php) — user3301042, Feb 28 '14 at 18:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 28 '14 at 17:52

You may do two things:

Use a hashing function to create new id, which will be unqiue as long as your ids are unique as:
```
$newdivid = md5($olddivid);
```

You may write a function to remove spaces and combine such string items

function remove_spaces($str) {
   $str_arr = explode(' ', $str);
   $newstr = "";
   foreach($str_arr as $sitem){
       $newstr .= trim($sitem);
   }
   return $newstr;
}

Hope this solves your problem.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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i found a php command in another Sof question for this purpose

$new_divname = str_replace(' ', '', $divname);

it deletes all spaces.. and of course my question gets a dublicate:

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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