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santa
santa

Reputation: 12512

Get query part of URL

I have a page that can have a link to in either one of the formats below:

When the query part of the URL is present, I need to capture it with PHP. I tried using parse_url but I'm not really sure how to use it. Tried this 

echo (parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']['query']));

but it returns Array...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 10423

Answers (4)

Patrick Perini
Patrick Perini

Reputation: 22633

parse_url returns an associative array (aka hash, dictionary, etc.) with the following keys:

scheme - e.g. http
host
port
user
pass
path
query - after the question mark ?
fragment - after the hashmark #

which could break down something like this:

scheme   user    password   host              port path       query     fragment
[http]://[santa]:[password]@[www.website.com]:[80]/[page.php]?[var=val]#[anchor]

you appear to be looking for one of these:

$parsedUrl = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo $parsedUrl['query'];
echo $_SERVER['query_string'];

Upvotes: 1

Salman Arshad
Salman Arshad

Reputation: 272106

The optional 2nd parameter of parse_url allows you to specify precisely what portion of URL you need:

<?php
echo parse_url("http://mydomain.com/linkID", PHP_URL_QUERY); // <empty string>
echo parse_url("http://mydomain.com/linkID?9c1023a67eaf46cae864a31097", PHP_URL_QUERY); // 9c1023a67eaf46cae864a31097

On the other hand, it is easier to use a server variable, if applicable:

echo isset($_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]) ? $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] : "";

Upvotes: 4

Ibu
Ibu

Reputation: 43810

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

This should be all you need. See $_SERVER variables

Upvotes: 1

Jan-Henk
Jan-Henk

Reputation: 4874

You should do:

$parsed = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
echo $parsed['query'];

EDIT:

If you only need the query part of the URL and nothing more the solution of Salman below is actually a bit nicer:

echo parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_QUERY);

Upvotes: 6

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