The parameters from a URL string can be retrieved in PHP using parse_url() and parse_str() functions.
Note: Page URL and the parameters are separated by the ? character.
parse_url() Function: The parse_url() function is used to return the components of a URL by parsing it. It parse an URL and return an associative array which contains its various components.
Syntax:
parse_url( $url, $component = -1 )
parse_str() Function: The parse_str() function is used to parse a query string into variables. The string passed to this function for parsing is in the format of a query string passed via a URL.
Syntax:
parse_str( $string, $array )
Approach: Parse the URL string using parse_url() function which will return an associative array that contains its (passed URL) various components. The query of the array returned by parse_url() function which contains a query string of URL.
Below examples uses parse_url() and parse_str() function to get the parameters from URL string.
Example 1:
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<?php// Initialize URL to the variable // Use parse_url() function to parse the URL // and return an associative array which// contains its various components$url_components = parse_url($url);// Use parse_str() function to parse the// string passed via URLparse_str($url_components['query'], $params); // Display resultecho ' Hi '.$params['name'];?> |
Hi Tonny
Example 2:
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<?php// Initialize URL to the variable // Use parse_url() function to parse the URL // and return an associative array which// contains its various components$url_components = parse_url($url);// Use parse_str() function to parse the// string passed via URLparse_str($url_components['query'], $params); // Display resultecho ' Hi '.$params['name'].' your emailID is '.$params['email'];?> |
Hi Amit your emailID is amit1998@gmail.com
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