note 84645 added to function.parse-str

In addition to Maikel's posting, the following will iterate through previous arrays and automatically apply them to the current array. The following code was implemented for YUI's Cookie/subCookie utility in which all form elements were stored as subcookies. This parses cookies and stores all cookie params (minus the parent value) into $_POST variables. if you would like to put elements into array's of the parent, just use the commented out line instead of the if statement. <?php // thise parses cookies and stores all fields as variables foreach ($_COOKIE as $key => $value) { // parse_str overwrites previous array values so we must merge the previous ones with new array if (isset($_POST)) { $_POST_old = $_POST; parse_str($value, $_POST); $_POST = array_merge($_POST_old, $_POST); } // this puts all elements as children of parent array // comment out above if statement to use this instead //parse_str($key, $_POST[$value]); } echo "<pre>"; print_r($_POST); echo "</pre>"; ?> ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 65.106.146.42 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/84645 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/84645 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/84645 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php