Urlencode everything but slashes?

Question

Is there any clean and easy way to urlencode() an arbitrary string but leave slashes (/) alone?

Answer 1

1. Split by /
2. urlencode() each part
3. Join with /

Answer 2

You can do like this:

$url = "http://www.google.com/myprofile/id/1001";
$encoded_url = urlencode($url);
$after_encoded_url = str_replace("%2F", "/", $url);