note 79154 added to function.parse-str

I shouldn't've posted the original version, as it only worked with the most basic of query strings. This function will parse an html-safe query-like url string for variables and php-like ordered and associative arrays. It places them into the global scope as parse_str does and adds minimal slashes for database insertions without the triple-slash problems that magic quotes can produce (the reason I had to write it in the first place). If you don't need the slashes, they're easy enough to remove. <?php function parse_query($str) { // Separate all name-value pairs $pairs = explode('&', $str); foreach($pairs as $pair) { // Pull out the names and the values list($name, $value) = explode('=', $pair, 2); // Decode the variable name and look for arrays list($name, $index) = split('[][]', urldecode($name)); // Arrays if(isset($index)) { // Declare or add to the global array defined by $name global $$name; if(!isset($$name)) $$name = array(); // Associative array if($index != "") { ${$name}[$index] = addslashes(urldecode($value)); // Ordered array } else { array_push($$name, addslashes(urldecode($value))); } // Variables } else { // Declare or overwrite the global variable defined by $name global $$name; $$name = addslashes(urldecode($value)); } } } ?> ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 216.27.187.242 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/79154 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/79154 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/79154 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php