Comments on: Easy way to build GET query strings in php

By: SneakyWho_am_i

SneakyWho_am_i — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:32:22 +0000

I have a friend (with “hacker” in his name, no less) who I’ve told ten times this year about these functions, and still I catch him at it again and again and again.

He actually LIKES doing it the hard way. Why?

Worse, he makes up really novel schemes like using “$” to break up his variables, and writing custom parsers in pure php to parse his custom data notation.
It doubles the size of some of his scripts.

By: newhope

newhope — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:28:13 +0000

lol, the most interest in this article is the func “parse_str”
it’s the first time I see it.
shame on me

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By: Stoyan

Stoyan — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 06:39:54 +0000

Thanks for the great examples !!

By: sameer

sameer — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:37:32 +0000

I’ll use the example url from my post below:

$url_to_parse = “http://www.example.com?city=new+york&id=3456&paid%5Bcurrency%5D=euro&paid%5Bamount%5D=345&paid%5Breceipt%5D=fgf44545″;

$parsed_url = parse_url($url_to_parse);
$url_query = $parsed_url['query'];

parse_str($url_query, $out);
print_r($out);

This will print:
Array
(
[city] => new york
[id] => 3456
[paid] => Array
(
[currency] => euro
[amount] => 345
[receipt] => fgf44545
)

)

I’ve also updated the post above to include this comment.

By: Stoyan

Stoyan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:26:42 +0000

Sorry, but it seems that the square brackets in the urls are filtered. I’ll use / instead of square bracket [
?opt=tpo&/foo\bar=1&foo/baz\=2

By: Stoyan

Stoyan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:24:26 +0000

In the previous post I meant:
http://xxxx.yyy?opt=tpo&foobar=1&foobaz=2

By: Stoyan

Stoyan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:22:41 +0000

Is there an opposite function to http_build_query ?
A function that converts
http://xxxx.yyy?opt=tpo&foobar=1&foobaz=2
to
array(‘opt’ => ‘tpo’, foo => array(‘bar’ => 1, ‘baz’ => 2);

By: Julien

Julien — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:08:49 +0000

@Jani : It’s only available since PHP5, it’s kinda new.
Thanks for the tip.