URL to Array in PHP - php

Question

I don't know how to make this working. I want to make arrays from URL:
index.php?address=someaddress&telephone=12345&customer=Customer Name&p_name[0]=ProductOne&p_name[1]=ProductTwo&p_price[0]=1&p_price[1]=10&p_name[2]...
There is an api, which is working like this:
$api‐>addItem(array(
'name' => 'ProductOne',
'price' => '123',
));
$api­‐>addItem(array(
'name' => 'ProductTwo',
'price' => '32',
));
Is there any way to make arrays like this (=api request $api->addItem(array) from the URL? $api­‐>addItem(array can be used multiple times.

Answer 1

EDIT: Thanks dqhendricks and Rocket for pointing out that you can use parse_str() to do the same thing.
$q = parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY));
Or you could use this (the long way):
function parse_query($var) {
$var = parse_url($var, PHP_URL_QUERY);
$var = html_entity_decode($var);
$var = explode('&', $var);
$arr = array();
foreach($var as $val) {
$x = explode('=', $val);
$arr[$x[0]] = $x[1];
}
unset($val, $x, $var);
return $arr;
}
Use like this:
$url = "http://someurl.com/click?z=26&a=761";
print_r(parse_query($url));

Answer 2

Do you have control over the URL? If so, I'd change how you send your values.
Instead of:
name1=ProductOne&price1=123&name2=ProductTwo&price2=32
I'd use:
name[]=ProductOne&price[]=123&name[]=ProductTwo&price[]=32
The [] turn them into arrays, meaning $_GET['name'] is now an array. then you can foreach over it.
foreach($_GET['name'] as $k=>$v){
$api->addItem(array(
'name' => $v,
'price' => $_GET['price'][$k]
));
}

Answer 3

// extract the query from the url string
$url = parse_url('sample.php?name1=ProductOne&price1=123&name2=ProductTwo&price2=32', PHP_URL_QUERY);
// process into array so that first element is a key, and second element is a value
parse_str($url, $output_array);
// now $output_array contains the query's variables.
The bigger question is why would you want to do this when these variables are already contained in $_GET?

Answer 4

sample.php?name[]=Product1&name[]=Product2
Then in your PHP, you can see:
print_r($_GET['name']);

Answer 5

I'm not sure if I understood you right, but if what you're looking for is converting a querystring to an array you can user the pares_str function. in order to get only the querystring from a url you can use the parse_url function
$url = "sample.php?some_var=someval&s=4&bla=bla";
$url_parts = parse_url($url);
$qs = $url_parts["query"];
$params = array();
parse_str($qs,$params);
var_dump($params);

Answer 6

Like dqhendricks suggested, would it not pay to just use the raw gets and then append them to an array. I am assuming that you will always know what will be in the URL
$array_of_gets = array("address" => $_GET['address'],"telephone" => $_GET['telephone']);
and so on...