How to get parameters from a URL string in PHP?
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
$url_components = parse_url ( $url );
parse_str ( $url_components [ 'query' ], $params );
echo ' Hi ' . $params [ 'name' ];
?>
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Example 2:
PHP
<?php
$url_components = parse_url ( $url );
parse_str ( $url_components [ 'query' ], $params );
echo ' Hi ' . $params [ 'name' ]. ' your emailID is ' . $params [ 'email' ];
?>
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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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