I want remove a parameter from a URL:
$linkExample1='https://stackoverflow.com/?name=alaa&counter=1';
$linkExample2='https://stackoverflow.com/?counter=4&star=5';
I am trying to get this result:
https://stackoverflow.com/?name=alaa&
https://stackoverflow.com/?&star=5
I am trying to do it using preg_replace, but I've no idea how it can be done.
$link = preg_replace('~(\?|&)counter=[^&]*~','$1',$link);
Relying on regular expressions can screw things up sometimes..
You should use, the parse_url() function which breaks up the entire URL and presents it to you as an associative array.
Once you have that array, you can edit it as you wish and remove parameters.
Once, completed, use the http_build_url() function to rebuild the URL with the changes made.
Check the docs here..
Parse_Url Http_build_query()
EDIT
Whoops, forgot to mention. After you get the parameter string, youll obviously need to separate the parameters as individual ones. For this you can supply the string as input to the parse_str() function.
You can even use explode() with & as the delimeter to get this done.
I would recommend using a combination of parse_url() and http_build_query().
Handle it correctly! !
remove_query('http://example.com/?a=valueWith**&**inside&b=value');
Code:
function remove_query($url, $which_argument=false){
return preg_replace( '/'. ($which_argument ? '(\&|)'.$which_argument.'(\=(.*?)((?=&(?!amp\;))|$)|(.*?)\b)' : '(\?.*)').'/i' , '', $url);
}
A code example how I would grab a requested URL and remove a parameter called "name", then reload the page:
$url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //complete url
$parts = parse_url($url);
parse_str($parts['query'], $query); //grab the query part
unset($query['name']); //remove a parameter from query
$dest_query = http_build_query($query); //rebuild new query
$dest_url=(isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http").'://'.$parts['path'].'?'.$dest_query; //add query to host
header("Location: ".$dest_url); //reload page
parse_url() and parse_str() are buggy. Regular expressions can work but have the tendency to break. If you want to correctly deconstruct, make changes, and then reconstruct a URL, you should look at:
http://barebonescms.com/documentation/ultimate_web_scraper_toolkit/
ExtractURL() generates parse_url()-like output but does much more (and does it right). CondenseURL() takes an array from ExtractURL() and constructs a new URL from the information. Both functions are in the 'support/http.php' file.
Years later...
$_GET can be manipulated like any other array in PHP. Simply unset the key and create the http query using the http_build_query function.
// Populate _GET with sample data...
$_GET = array(
'value_a' => "A",
'key_to_remove' => "Don't delete me bro!",
'value_b' => "B"
);
// Should output everything...
// "value_a=A&key_to_remove=Don%27t+delete+me+bro%21&value_b=B"
echo "\n".http_build_query( $_GET );
// Remove the key from _GET...
unset( $_GET[ 'key_to_remove' ] );
// Should output everything else...
// "value_a=A&value_b=B"
echo "\n".http_build_query( $_GET );
This is working for me:
function removeParameterFromUrl($url, $key)
{
$parsed = parse_url($url);
$path = $parsed['path'];
unset($_GET[$key]);
if(!empty(http_build_query($_GET))){
return $path .'?'. http_build_query($_GET);
} else return $path;
}
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I'd like to find a clean if possibile (without too much string manipulation preg_*)
I know that to replace a parameter I would do
$_GET['info'] = "newinfo";
and to remove a parameter:
unset($_GET['info']);
so is there something like that that I can use?
of course after I've "unset" or "set" I'm building a new query.
(http_build_query).
At the end I'm trying to make this:
/index.php?foo=bar
to
/index.php?foo=bar&info=newinfo
Just do this:
$get = $_GET;
$get['new'] = 'some value';
function getPath()
{
// Stolen from https://stackoverflow.com/a/8775529/3578036
$request = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$path = $request["path"];
return rtrim(str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), '', $path), '/');
}
header("Location: " . getPage() . http_build_query($get));
The above code will create a query string and append it to the current URL and redirect to that location. Obviously, you can change the location that you redirect to by replacing the getPage() function result and putting your own result there, this just demonstrates the premise of the answer.
The docs for http_build_query are a very good place to start.
Effectively, what it will do is convert an associative array into an HTTP query string.
there is an external page, that passes a URL using a param value, in the querystring. to my page.
eg: page.php?URL=http://www.domain2.com?foo=bar
i tried saving the param using
$url = $_GET['url']
the problem is the reffering page does not send it encoded. and therefore it recognizes anything trailing the "&" as the beginning of a new param.
i need a way to parse the url in a way that anything trailing the second "?" is part or the passed url and not the acctual querystring.
Get the full querystring and then take out the 'URL=' part of it
$name = http_build_query($_GET);
$name = substr($name, strlen('URL='));
Antonio's answer is probably best. A less elegant way would also work:
$url = $_GET['url'];
$keys = array_keys($_GET);
$i=1;
foreach($_GET as $value) {
$url .= '&'.$keys[$i].'='.$value;
$i++;
}
echo $url;
Something like this might help:
// The full request
$request_full = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
// Position of the first "?" inside $request_full
$pos_question_mark = strpos($request_full, '?');
// Position of the query itself
$pos_query = $pos_question_mark + 1;
// Extract the malformed query from $request_full
$request_query = substr($request_full, $pos_query);
// Look for patterns that might corrupt the query
if (preg_match('/([^=]+[=])([^\&]+)([\&]+.+)?/', $request_query, $matches)) {
// If a match is found...
if (isset($_GET[$matches[1]])) {
// ... get rid of the original match...
unset($_GET[$matches[1]]);
// ... and replace it with a URL encoded version.
$_GET[$matches[1]] = urlencode($matches[2]);
}
}
As you have hinted in your question, the encoding of the URL you get is not as you want it: a & will mark a new argument for the current URL, not the one in the url parameter. If the URL were encoded correctly, the & would have been escaped as %26.
But, OK, given that you know for sure that everything following url= is not escaped and should be part of that parameter's value, you could do this:
$url = preg_replace("/^.*?([?&]url=(.*?))?$/i", "$2", $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
So if for example the current URL is:
http://www.myhost.com/page.php?a=1&URL=http://www.domain2.com?foo=bar&test=12
Then the returned value is:
http://www.domain2.com?foo=bar&test=12
See it running on eval.in.
How can I take out the part of the url after the view name
Example:
The URL:
http://localhost/winner/container.php?fun=page&view=eims
Extraction
eims
This is called a GET parameter. You can get it by using
<?php
$view = $_GET['view'];
If this is for a URL which is not part of your website (e.g. Not your domain), but you wish to parse it. Something like this will work
$url = "http://example.com/index.php?foo=bar&acme=baz&view=asdf";
$params = explode('?', $url)[1]; // This gets the text AFTER the ? Note: If using PHP 5.3 or less, this may not work. You would then need to split it into two lines with the [1] happening on $params.
$pairs = explode('&', $params);
foreach($pairs as $p => $pair) {
list($keys[$p], $values[$p]) = explode('=', $pair);
$splits[$keys[$p]] = $values[$p];
}
echo $splits['view'];
<?php echo $_GET['view']; ?> //eims
If that's current URL, the simple and rock solid approach is to use the filter functions:
filter_input(INPUT_GET, 'view')
Otherwise, you can use parse_url() with PHP_URL_QUERY as second argument. The resulting string can be split with e.g. parse_str().
Are sure you are writing this "echo $_GET['view'];" in the container.php file?
Maybe write why do you need that "view".
Currently I have a url thats like this,
http://website.com/type/value
I am using
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = trim($url, '/');
$array = explode('/',$url);
this to get the value currently but my page has Facebook like's on it and when it is clicked it adds all these extra variables. http://website.com/type/value?fb_action_ids=1234567&fb_action_types= and that breaks that value that I am trying to get. Is there another way to get the specific value?
Assuming you know that this will always be a valid URL, you can use parse_url.
list(, $value) = explode('/', parse_url($url)['path']);
I'd use a preg_replace
explode('/', preg_replace('/?.*$/', '', $url));
You could also use:
$array = explode('/',$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);
Or, this:
$array = explode('/',$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
With this, you do not need the trim() call or the temp var $url - unless you use it from something else.
The reason for two options is I don't know if /type/value is being passed to an index.php or if value is in fact a php file. Either way, one of the two options will give you what you need.
Users can input URLs using a HTML form on my website, so they might enter something like this: http://www.example.com?test=123&random=abc, it can be anything. I need to extract the value of a certain query parameter, in this case 'test' (the value 123). Is there a way to do this?
You can use parse_url and parse_str like this:
$query = parse_url('http://www.example.com?test=123&random=abc', PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($query, $params);
$test = $params['test'];
parse_url allows to split an URL in different parts (scheme, host, path, query, etc); here we use it to get only the query (test=123&random=abc). Then we can parse the query with parse_str.
I needed to check an url that was relative for our system so I couldn't use parse_str. For anyone who needs it:
$urlParts = null;
preg_match_all("~[\?&]([^&]+)=([^&]+)~", $url, $urlParts);
the hostname is optional but is required at least the question mark at the begin of parameter string:
$inputString = '?test=123&random=abc&usersList[]=1&usersList[]=2' ;
parse_str ( parse_url ( $inputString , PHP_URL_QUERY ) , $params );
print_r ( $params );