Remove white space and characters from URL in smarty.

[Edge_jr]

Hi,

 

I am getting some special characters in URL and want to know how to remove them.

 

http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fdemo2%2Findex.php%3Fid_product%3D20%26controller%3Dproduct%26id_lang%3D1

 

Following is my php function using urlencode and try different possibilities but no result.

 

public function hookExtraLeft($params)

{

global $smarty, $cookie, $link; 

$id_product = Tools::getValue('id_product');

 

if (isset($id_product) && $id_product != '')

{ 

$product_infos = $this->context->controller->getProduct();

$smarty->assign(array(

'product_link' => urlencode($link->getProductLink($product_infos)),

'product_title' => urlencode($product_infos->name),

));

return $this->display(__FILE__, 'blocksharefb.tpl');

} else {

return '';

}

}

This is in module "blocksharefb".

 

Any idea?

 

-Thanks