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How to get parameters from a URL string in PHP?

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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:  

PHP




<?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 URL
parse_str($url_components['query'], $params);
     
// Display result
echo ' Hi '.$params['name'];
 
?>


Output: 

Hi Tonny

 

Example 2: 

PHP




<?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 URL
parse_str($url_components['query'], $params);
     
// Display result
echo ' Hi '.$params['name'].' your emailID is '.$params['email'];
 
?>


Output: 

Hi Amit your emailID is amit1998@gmail.com

 

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed specifically for web development. You can learn PHP from the ground up by following this PHP Tutorial and PHP Examples.



Last Updated : 29 Jul, 2022
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