how to parse jQuery address plugin - php

Question

i am using http://www.asual.com/jquery/address/ plugin and trying to parse some url, this is what i got:
<script>$(function(){
$.address.init(function(event) {
// Initializes the plugin
$('a').address();
}).change(function(event) {
$('a').attr('href').replace(/^#/, '');
$.ajax({
url: 'items.php',
data:"data="+event.value,
success: function(data) {
$('div#content').html(data)
}
})
});
})</script>
then HTML:
link02
link03
then im calling item.php, wich for now only has
echo $_GET["data"];
so after the ajax request has complete it echoes :
/items.php?id=2
/items.php?id=3
how can i parse this so i get only the var values? it is better to do it on client side?
and also if my html href is something like link02
jQuery address will ignore the &var=jj
cheers

Answer 1

You can use parse_url() to get the query string and then parse_str to get the query string parsed into variables.
Example:
<?php
// this is your url
$url = 'items.php?id=2&var=jj';
// you ask parse_url to parse the url and return you only the query string from it
$queryString = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
// parse_str can extract the variables into the global space or can put them into an array
// NOTE: for simplicity no validation is performed but in production you should perform validation
$params = array();
parse_str($queryString, $params);
// you can access the values like thid
echo $params['id']; // will output 2
echo $params['var']; // will output 'jj'
// I prefer this way, because it eliminates the posibility of overwriting another global variable
// with the same name as one of the parameters in the url.
// or you can tell parse_str to extract the variables into the global space
parse_str($queryString);
// or if you want to use the global scope
echo $id; // will output 2
echo $var; // will output 'jj'