PHP - Replace apostrophe - php

Question

I am currently developing a website with a list of names. Some of the names include apostrophes ' and I want to link them to a website using their name.
I want to link to the a url like:
example.com/ (their name)
And by doing that, I first replace " " with "+". So the links looks like: example.com/john+doe
But if the name is John'Doe it turns the url into just example.com/john
And skips the lastname.
How can I fix this? I tried changing ', \' etc, to html codes, to ', and more, but nothing seems to work.
Here is my current code:
$name = $row['name'];
$new_name = str_replace(
array("'", "'"),
array(" ", "+"),
$name
);
echo "<td>" . $name . " <a href='http://www.example.com/name=" . $new_name . "' target='_blank'></a>" . "</td>";
What I want it to look like:
John Doe Johnson ----> http://www.example.com/name=John+Doe+Johnson
John'Doe Johnson ----> http://www.example.com/name=John'Doe+Johnson
It changes the spaces to +, but how can I fix the apostrophes? Anyone knows?

Answer 1

You should be using PHP's function urlencode, php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php.
<?php
$name = $row['name'];
//$urlname = urlencode('John\'Doe Johnson');
$urlname = urlencode($name);
echo "<td>$name<a href='http://www.example.com/name=$urlname' target='_blank'>$name</a></td>";
Output:
<td>John%27Doe+Johnson <a href='http://www.example.com/name=John%27Doe+Johnson' target='_blank'></a></td>

Answer 2

echo urlencode("John'Doe Johnson");
return
John%27Doe+Johnson