Replacing a specific part of a query string PHP - php

Question

I use $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] to get the query sting.
A example would be a=123&b=456&c=789
How could I remove the b value from the query string to obtain a=123&c=789 where b can be any value of any length and is alpha numeric.
Any ideas appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

A solution using url parsing:
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $result_array);
unset($result_array['b']);
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = http_build_query($result_array);

Answer 2

The value is going to be $_GET['b'].
How about:
str_replace('&b='.$_GET['b'], '', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

Answer 3

you can use this function:
function Remove_QS_Key($url, $key) {
$url = preg_replace('/(?:&|(\?))'.$key.'=[^&]*(?(1)&|)?/i', "$1", $url);
return $url;
}
to remove any key you want, e.g.
echo Remove_QS_Key("http://domain.com/?a=b&ref=dusername&c=d&e=f&g=h", "ref");
result
http://www.domain.com/?a=b&c=d&e=f&g=h

Answer 4

Try this:
$query_new = preg_replace('/(^|&)b=[^&]*/', '', $query);

Answer 5

All the answers look good, but it will be more flexible if you do:
// Make a copy of $_GET to keep the original data
$getCopy = $_GET;
unset($getCopy['b']); // or whatever var you want to take out
// This is your cleaned array
var_dump($getCopy);
// If you need the URL-encoded string, just use http_build_query()
$encodedString = http_build_query($getCopy);

Answer 6

You simply make a variable using $_GET and exclude b query string in build process:
$query_string_new = 'a=' . urlencode($_GET['a']) . '&c=' . urlencode($_GET['c']);
The $query_string_new should now contain a=123&c=789

Answer 7

Pear already has a class(Net_URL2) that handles URL parsing/building:
Install via Composer: https://packagist.org/packages/pear/net_url2
Install as include: https://github.com/pear/Net_URL2/blob/master/Net/URL2.php
Example code:
$url = new Net_URL2('http://www.example.com/?one=1');
$url->setQueryVariable('two', 2);
echo $url; // http://www.example.com/?one=1&two=2

Answer 8

Here is a function to replace a query parameter: (like example.com?a=1&b=2 -> example.com?a=5&b=2)
function replace_qs_key($key, $value) {
$current_url = (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] === 'on' ? "https" : "http") .
"://$_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]$_SERVER[REQUEST_URI]";
$current_url_without_qs = strtok($current_url, '?');
parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $query_params);
$query_params['page'] = $value;
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = http_build_query($query_params);
$new_url = $current_url_without_qs .'?'. $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
return $new_url;
}