Sanitizes a URL for database or redirect usage.

This function is an alias for sanitize_url() .

• sanitize_url()

$url string Required

The URL to be cleaned.

$protocols string[] Optional

An array of acceptable protocols.
Defaults to return value of wp_allowed_protocols() .

Default: null

string The cleaned URL after sanitize_url() is run.

The esc_url_raw() function is similar to esc_url() (and actually uses it), but unlike esc_url() it does not replace entities for display. The resulting URL is safe to use in database queries, redirects and HTTP requests.

This function is not safe to use for displaying the URL, use esc_url() instead.

File: wp-includes/formatting.php. View all references

function esc_url_raw( $url, $protocols = null ) {
	return sanitize_url( $url, $protocols );
}