How can urlencode() and rawurlencode() functions in PHP help resolve issues with generating links from database categories?

When generating links from database categories, the category names may contain special characters or spaces that can break the URL structure. To resolve this issue, we can use the `urlencode()` or `rawurlencode()` functions in PHP to encode the category names properly before including them in the URLs. 

$categoryName = "Men's Clothing"; // Example category name from the database
$categoryUrl = urlencode($categoryName); // Encode the category name for URL use

echo "<a href='/categories/{$categoryUrl}'>{$categoryName}</a>";

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