Because if someone enters

teammatt3 — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:36:00 +0000

Because if someone enters "this is some text and this could through off the program &some_param=hahahah4" and it's not encoded, it could throw off the PHP script. It's not necessarily a security risk for my program, but it could produce some unexpected output for the user, which I want to avoid.

What are you needing it

Greg K — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:35:33 +0000

What are you needing it encoded for?

-Greg

According to some commenter

teammatt3 — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:48:00 +0000

According to some commenter on the PHP doc pages, JS's encodeURIComponent and PHP's rawurlencode perform the same type of encoding. So I can use encodeURIComponent in Javascript and rawurldecode in PHP.