Req #80536 [Com]: http_build_query dense numerically indexed arrays without brackets flag?

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80536&edit=1 ID: 80536 Comment by: antonino dot spampinato86 at gmail dot com Reported by: divinity76 at gmail dot com Summary: http_build_query dense numerically indexed arrays without brackets flag? Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: URL related PHP Version: Next Minor Version Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: you can't because to recover php use the super global array $_GET and overwrite the last key. http://exampla.domain.com/index.php?foo=0&foo=1 $_GET['foo'] // 1 not 0 and 1 use https://3v4l.org/ku2oK Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2020-12-20 16:56:42] divinity76 at gmail dot com Description: ------------ there are some apis which doesn't support http_build_query()'s array method of foo[0]=a&foo[1]=b&foo[2]=c, instead specifying arrays like foo=a&foo=b&foo=c , one such api is Google's Closure Compiler Rest API, https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/gettingstarted_api i recently had to generate a POST request to that api through PHP, i ended up doing ``` "output_info=compiled_code&output_info=warnings&output_info=errors&output_info=statistics&" . http_build_query(array( 'output_format' => 'json', 'compilation_level' => $compile_level, 'warning_level' => 'verbose', 'js_code' => $js_to_minify )) ``` i had to hack the output_info array data in there, instead of doing it the "proper way" of ``` http_build_query(array( 'output_format' => 'json', 'compilation_level' => $compile_level, 'warning_level' => 'verbose', 'js_code' => $js_to_minify, 'output_info' => array('compiled_code', 'warnings', 'errors', 'statistics') )) ``` it would be nice if http_build_query() could get a flag to treat numerically indexed densely populated arrays (eg what you get from array_values() or array("a","b","c") ) without brackets.. (there's probably a better name for it, idk what) not sure what the flag name should be though, PHP_QUERY_DENSE_NUMERICALLY_INDEXED_ARRAYS_WITHOUT_BRACKETS kinda feels too long Test script: --------------- <?php echo http_build_query( ["foo"=>["a","b","c"]], null, '&', PHP_QUERY_DENSE_NUMERICALLY_INDEXED_ARRAYS_WITHOUT_BRACKETS ); Expected result: ---------------- foo=a&foo=b&foo=c ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80536&edit=1