function urlencode (str) {
    // URL-encodes string  
    // 
    // version: 908.406
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/urlencode
    // +   original by: Philip Peterson
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: AJ
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: travc
    // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Lars Fischer
    // +      input by: Ratheous
    // %          note 1: info on what encoding functions to use from: http://xkr.us/articles/javascript/encode-compare/
    // *     example 1: urlencode('Kevin van Zonneveld!');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin+van+Zonneveld%21'
    // *     example 2: urlencode('http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/');
    // *     returns 2: 'http%3A%2F%2Fkevin.vanzonneveld.net%2F'
    // *     example 3: urlencode('http://www.google.nl/search?q=php.js&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a');
    // *     returns 3: 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dphp.js%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a'
                             
    var hash_map = {}, unicodeStr='', hexEscStr='';
    var ret = (str+'').toString();
    
    var replacer = function (search, replace, str) {
        var tmp_arr = [];
        tmp_arr = str.split(search);
        return tmp_arr.join(replace);
    };
    
    // The hash_map is identical to the one in urldecode.
    hash_map["'"]   = '%27';
    hash_map['(']   = '%28';
    hash_map[')']   = '%29';
    hash_map['*']   = '%2A';
    hash_map['~']   = '%7E';
    hash_map['!']   = '%21';
    hash_map['%20'] = '+';
    hash_map['\u00DC'] = '%DC';
    hash_map['\u00FC'] = '%FC';
    hash_map['\u00C4'] = '%D4';
    hash_map['\u00E4'] = '%E4';
    hash_map['\u00D6'] = '%D6';
    hash_map['\u00F6'] = '%F6';
    hash_map['\u00DF'] = '%DF';
    hash_map['\u20AC'] = '%80';
    hash_map['\u0081'] = '%81';
    hash_map['\u201A'] = '%82';
    hash_map['\u0192'] = '%83';
    hash_map['\u201E'] = '%84';
    hash_map['\u2026'] = '%85';
    hash_map['\u2020'] = '%86';
    hash_map['\u2021'] = '%87';
    hash_map['\u02C6'] = '%88';
    hash_map['\u2030'] = '%89';
    hash_map['\u0160'] = '%8A';
    hash_map['\u2039'] = '%8B';
    hash_map['\u0152'] = '%8C';
    hash_map['\u008D'] = '%8D';
    hash_map['\u017D'] = '%8E';
    hash_map['\u008F'] = '%8F';
    hash_map['\u0090'] = '%90';
    hash_map['\u2018'] = '%91';
    hash_map['\u2019'] = '%92';
    hash_map['\u201C'] = '%93';
    hash_map['\u201D'] = '%94';
    hash_map['\u2022'] = '%95';
    hash_map['\u2013'] = '%96';
    hash_map['\u2014'] = '%97';
    hash_map['\u02DC'] = '%98';
    hash_map['\u2122'] = '%99';
    hash_map['\u0161'] = '%9A';
    hash_map['\u203A'] = '%9B';
    hash_map['\u0153'] = '%9C';
    hash_map['\u009D'] = '%9D';
    hash_map['\u017E'] = '%9E';
    hash_map['\u0178'] = '%9F';
    
    // Begin with encodeURIComponent, which most resembles PHP's encoding functions
    ret = encodeURIComponent(ret);

    for (unicodeStr in hash_map) {
        hexEscStr = hash_map[unicodeStr];
        ret = replacer(unicodeStr, hexEscStr, ret); // Custom replace. No regexing
    }
    
    // Uppercase for full PHP compatibility
    return ret.replace(/(\%([a-z0-9]{2}))/g, function (full, m1, m2) {
        return "%"+m2.toUpperCase();
    });
}


function http_build_query (formdata, numeric_prefix, arg_separator) {
    // Generates a form-encoded query string from an associative array or object.  
    // 
    // version: 908.406
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/http_build_query
    // +   original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Legaev Andrey
    // +   improved by: Michael White (http://getsprink.com)
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +    revised by: stag019
    // -    depends on: urlencode
    // *     example 1: http_build_query({foo: 'bar', php: 'hypertext processor', baz: 'boom', cow: 'milk'}, '', '&');
    // *     returns 1: 'foo=bar&php=hypertext+processor&baz=boom&cow=milk'
    // *     example 2: http_build_query({'php': 'hypertext processor', 0: 'foo', 1: 'bar', 2: 'baz', 3: 'boom', 'cow': 'milk'}, 'myvar_');
    // *     returns 2: 'php=hypertext+processor&myvar_0=foo&myvar_1=bar&myvar_2=baz&myvar_3=boom&cow=milk'
    var value, key, tmp = [];

    var _http_build_query_helper = function (key, val, arg_separator) {
        var k, tmp = [];
        if (val === true) {
            val = "1";
        } else if (val === false) {
            val = "0";
        }
        if (typeof(val) == "array" || typeof(val) == "object") {
            for (k in val) {
                if (val[k] !== null) {
                    tmp.push(_http_build_query_helper(key + "[" + k + "]", val[k], arg_separator));
                }
            }
            return tmp.join(arg_separator);
        } else if (typeof(val) != "function") {
            return this.urlencode(key) + "=" + this.urlencode(val);
        }
    };

    if (!arg_separator) {
        arg_separator = "&";
    }
    for (key in formdata) {
        value = formdata[key];
        if (numeric_prefix && !isNaN(key)) {
            key = String(numeric_prefix) + key;
        }
        tmp.push(_http_build_query_helper(key, value, arg_separator));
    }

    return tmp.join(arg_separator);
}


function utf8_encode ( argString ) {
    // Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8  
    // 
    // version: 908.406
    // discuss at: http://phpjs.org/functions/utf8_encode
    // +   original by: Webtoolkit.info (http://www.webtoolkit.info/)
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: sowberry
    // +    tweaked by: Jack
    // +   bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
    // +   improved by: Yves Sucaet
    // +   bugfixed by: Onno Marsman
    // *     example 1: utf8_encode('Kevin van Zonneveld');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin van Zonneveld'
    var string = (argString+'').replace(/\r\n/g, "\n").replace(/\r/g, "\n");

    var utftext = "";
    var start, end;
    var stringl = 0;

    start = end = 0;
    stringl = string.length;
    for (var n = 0; n < stringl; n++) {
        var c1 = string.charCodeAt(n);
        var enc = null;

        if (c1 < 128) {
            end++;
        } else if (c1 > 127 && c1 < 2048) {
            enc = String.fromCharCode((c1 >> 6) | 192) + String.fromCharCode((c1 & 63) | 128);
        } else {
            enc = String.fromCharCode((c1 >> 12) | 224) + String.fromCharCode(((c1 >> 6) & 63) | 128) + String.fromCharCode((c1 & 63) | 128);
        }
        if (enc !== null) {
            if (end > start) {
                utftext += string.substring(start, end);
            }
            utftext += enc;
            start = end = n+1;
        }
    }

    if (end > start) {
        utftext += string.substring(start, string.length);
    }

    return utftext;
}