note 78603 deleted from function.http-build-query by hholzgra

Note Submitter: donovan jimenez ---- 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.