Need help... convert '%20' -> '+'... is this possible?

I've been trying to figure this out all day. Searching for possible rewrites, ANYTHING, but to no avail. This script works just fine when the city is a one word city such as 'Seattle'. However, When it's something like 'Los Angeles' I get error signs. I know that this is being cause because the city is being called from the URL and comes up as 'Los%20Angeles'. Is there anyway within this code that I code convert a '%20' to a '+'?

<?php 

  $city = $_GET['city'];
  
	    $request = 'http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsService/V1/mapImage?appid=<my_id>&image_height=103&image_width=194&city=' . $city . '&state=' . $abbr . '&zoom=4&radius=10&output=php';
	    
	    $response = file_get_contents($request);
	
	    if ($response === false) {
	    	die('sorry');
	    }
	
	    $phpobj = unserialize($response);
	
	    echo '<img src="'.$phpobj["Result"].'">';
	?>

PHP:

 

Yes you can simply use like that :
<?php
$city = $_GET['city'];
$city = str_replace("%20","+",$city );

or there be also inbuild function to use this for url encode and decode......

 

string urldecode  ( string $str  )

PHP:

Peace,

 

singh, I've tried that before and it didn't work. Still returns an error message.

Azizny, I'm not sure I really understand how to use that. Within that code, am I suppose to substitute something there with '$city'?

 

Strange that it returns an error message. Can you post it here?

Otherwise, you could try with preg_replace instead of str_replace:
$city = $_GET['city'];
$city = preg_replace('%20', '+', $city);

 

Try this:
$city = urldecode($_GET['city']);

 

Let me know if problem was not solved...

 

elias, when I tried that it showed the map but starred location was not in right place AND gave this message:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: No ending delimiter '%' found in /home/coyoloko/public_html/yahoo_api.php on line 4

tamilsoft, with that I just get this error:

Warning: file_get_contents(http://local.yahooapis.com/MapsServ...4-&image_height=103&image_width=194&city=Palm Springs&state=CA&zoom=4&radius=10&output=php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /home/coyoloko/public_html/yahoo_api.php on line 7


I really appreciate everyone's help. Hopefully I can get this figured out.