note 78603 added to function.http-build-query

Other languages (in my case Java) allow access to multiple values for the same GET/POST parameter without the use of the brace ([]) notation. I wanted to use this function because it was faster than my own PHP implementation that urlencoded each part of a parameter array, but I needed to be able to send something like this to a service: ...?q=foo&q=bar obviously http_build_query() by itself would have given me: ...?q[0]=foo&q[1]=bar So, preg_replace to the rescue: ... $query_string = http_build_query($params); $query_string = preg_replace('/%5B(?:[0-9]|[1-9][0-9]+)%5D=/', '=', $query_string); ... And I get single dimension arrays encoded how I need them. This works because the '=' character can't appear non-urlencoded except for exactly where I expect it to appear (between key / value pairs). DISCLAIMER: this workaround was only intended for getting rid of the array notation when a parameter had multiple "simple" values. More complex structures will probably be mangled. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 74.95.169.49 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-build-query.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/78603 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/78603 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/78603 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php