URL functions

miscellaneous URL functions

// parse_url:
 
$url = "http://www.jonasjohn.de/post.php?example=yes&text=foobar";
$url = parse_url($url);
 
print_r($url);
/*
    will return this array:
 
    [scheme] => http
    [host] => www.jonasjohn.de
    [path] => /post.php
    [query] => example=yes&text=foobar
*/
 
 
// urldecode & urlencode:
 
$query = "example=yes&text=foo%28bar%29%2B";
 
print urldecode($query); // opposite: urlencode
// output: example=yes&text=foo(bar)+
 
 
 
// parse the query:
 
parse_str($query, $output);
print_r($output);
 
/*
    will return this array:
 
    [example] => yes
    [text] => foo(bar)+
*/

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
03/29/2006

Updated:
03/29/2006

Tags:
url, http, tutorials

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