Using urlencode() in form

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I need to send special characters (like polish characters) using form. I figured out i need to use urlencode and urldecode. How to use it when sending form?

The code of form is

<form id="form1" action="add.php" method="POST" accept-charset="utf-8">
  Description: <input type=text name="title" maxlenght=150/><br/>
  Link: <input type=text name="link"/><br/>
<input type=submit value="Send"/>

Please [learn to love labels](http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200711/use_the_label_element_to_make_your_html_forms_accessible/) — Quentin, Dec 18 '14 at 15:57

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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You do not need to use them at all.

Submitting a form will cause the browser to encode characters automatically.

Since you are using PHP, $_POST will be populated with decoded characters automatically.

If you are having character encoding issues where the characters are being encoded or decoded incorrectly, then see UTF-8 all the way through.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Dec 18 '14 at 15:53

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Thanks. My problem was using mysqli. I tried with PDO and it works. – user3242060 Dec 18 '14 at 16:13

Using urlencode() in form

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