Escaping / Encoding URLs

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Hi Everyone

Escaping / encoding. It always confuses me.

I am writing $page->url() and $file->url() into my page header sharing meta tags. For example:

<meta property="og:image" content="<?php echo $image->url() ?>" />

I think I should be escaping / encoding the URL. I am escaping text added to the meta tags using ->escape(). I cannot add this to $file->url().

I feel like this is a really dumb question, but hey …

How do I escape the URL? Do I need to escape the URL (or does Kirby do this already)?

Thank you
Regards
Mike

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You don’t need to escape file URLs. Kirby automatically runs the image filename through rawurlencode so that spaces and other invalid characters are converted to percent encoded characters.

BTW: The reason why ->escape() does not work is that the url() method returns an URL string instead of a Field object. Only these objects have field methods.

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