How can I manipulate this URL

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When I Post any question in codeproject, it generates the URL of that question replacing the spaces with "-" sign.
For Example If I post a question with such kind of title

How Can I Rewrite URL

When I will submit this question, it will generate a URL of similar this

http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/314951/How-Can-I-Rewrite-URL

Means it will replace the white spaces of the title with "-" signs.

How can I do that with my URLs. I have used str_replace function to replace the white spaces with "-". And for using this title replace back the "-" with white spaces.
But the Problem is, There may be some title that itself contains "-" sign, then how I will handle that?

Please guide me about this Problem.

Posted 16-Jan-12 7:44am

rashidfarooq

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Jan-12 14:17pm

Why?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-01-16T08:21:00

Solution 1

I think you are asking about something which is normally solved using the techniques and encoding format called URL encoding.

This is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_encoding[^].

When it comes to PHP, please see:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php[^],
http://php.net/manual/en/function.urldecode.php[^].

—SA

Posted 16-Jan-12 8:21am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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rashidfarooq 16-Jan-12 14:45pm

But urlencode function replaces the spaces with plus (+) sign and I want the white spaces to be replaced with minus (-) sign.