Decode URL into an array rather than a string

Question

I am currently working with PayPals API and want to transform one of its response from a name-value pair to an array.

So far I have used urldecode() to decode the response to the following:

RECEIVERBUSINESS=foo@bar.com&RECEIVEREMAIL=another@email.com&MOREINFO=lots more info`

What I would like is to have the following:

RECEIVERBUSINESS => 'foo@bar.com'
RECEIVEREMAIL => 'another@email.com'
MOREINFO => 'lots more info'

I'm just not quite sure how to get there!

Answer 1

Look into explode -

// poulate array from URL parameters
$returnedInfo = explode('&', $dataStringFromUrl);

http://us.php.net/explode

Answer 2

parse_str is what you're looking for:

parse_str('RECEIVERBUSINESS=foo@bar.com&RECEIVEREMAIL=another@email.com&MOREINFO=lots more info', $arr);
/*
print_r($arr);
Array
(
    [RECEIVERBUSINESS] => foo@bar.com
    [RECEIVEREMAIL] => another@email.com
    [MOREINFO] => lots more info
)
*/