How to encode URL using php like browsers do

Question

I have an URL like this

http://www.example.com/Data/image/office-dôn-sì-à.jpg

I want to copy that file to my server using copy

Answer 1

So, the other answers here have largely ignored your post, it seems. Let's hope I have not done the same.

It seems to me that you only want to encode the basename? If that is true, this ad-hoc function should do the trick:

function encode_basename($url) {
    $url = explode('/', $url);
    $base = array_pop($url);

    return implode('/', $url) . '/' . urlencode($base);
}
//returns: http://www.example.com/Data/image/office-d%25C3%25B4n-s%25C3%25AC-%25C3%25A0.jpg