How to pass '+' sign with Curl??

Hi,
When you try to make a post request with curl, '+' signs in a variable bocomes ' ', space.

Lets give an example;
$var = "http://forums.digitalpoint.com/this+is+a+message.html"

After posting this variable with curl, variable is transmitted as follow;
$var = "http://forums.digitalpoint.com/this is a message.html"

Any idea to fix this issue?
thanks

 

you should use urlencode($var)
$str='this is text';
$str=urlencode($str);
echo $str; //echoes 'this+is+text'
echo urldecode($str); /echoes 'this is text'

 

str_replace("+","%2b",$var)

for only altering the plus sign, otherwise use urlencode

 

wow, it works.
thank you, sent you a gift

 

Wow, thanks