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Encoding SEO friendly URL

I am trying to encode a phrase in order to pass it inside a URL. Currently it works fine with basic words, where spaces are replaces with dashes.

<a href="./'.str_replace(' ', '-', preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9- ]/", '', $phrase)).'">

It produces something like:

/this-is-my-phase

On the page that this URL takes me I am able to replace the dashes with spaces and query my db for this phrase.

The problem I have is if the phrase contains apostrophe. My current script removes it. Is there any way to preserve it or replace with some URL-friendly character to accommodate something like?

this is bob's page
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  1. 0

    If you want to allow another character , you have to add it to this section: ^A-Za-z0-9- so if for example you wish to allow ' the regex will be [^A-Za-z0-9-' ]

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    There is a PHP standard library function urlencode() to encode non-alphanumeric characters with %Xxx where xx is the hex value of the character.

    If the limitations of that conversion (&, ©, £, etc.), are not acceptable, see rawurlencode().

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    If you only need to replace all the apostrophes ('), then you can replace it with the URL-encoded character %27:

    str_replace("'", "%20", $url);

    EDIT

    If you want to replace all URL-non-safe character, use a built-in function like in @wallyk’s answer. It’s much simpler.

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