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Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
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Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition

by Rob Brooks-Bilson
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1140 pages
68h 45m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

URLEncodedFormat

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                  URLEncodedFormat(string [, CharacterSet])

Encodes strings that otherwise cause errors when passed as URLs. Optionally, a Java character set for the string to be encoded can be specified. Depending on the server’s JRE, options typically include UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, US-ASCII, and ISO-8859-1. If no character set is specified, ColdFusion defaults to the response character encoding. URLEncodedFormat( ) replaces nonalphanumeric characters with their equivalent hexadecimal escape sequences. ColdFusion automatically decodes any URL-escaped strings it encounters. The following example creates a URL-encoded hyperlink from a string containing spaces and nonalphanumeric characters:

<cfset TheDate = "04/15/2003">
<cfset ItemID = "123456">
<cfset Customer = "Caroline Smith">
   
Click on the link below to check-out:<br>
<p><cfoutput>
<a href="http://www.myserver.com/index.cfm?TheDate=#UrlEncodedFormat(TheDate)#&
ItemID=#UrlEncodedFormat(ItemID)#&Customer=#UrlEncodedFormat(Customer)#">Check-out
</a>
</cfoutput>
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