I'm trying to grab each URL parameter and display them from first to last, but I want to be able to display any of the parameters anywhere on the page. How can I do this? What do I have to add or modify on my script?
Here is an example of a URL value.
http://www.localhost.com/topics/index.php?cat=3&sub1=sub-1&sub2=sub-2&sub3=sub-3&sub4=sub-4
Here is my PHP script.
$url = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$query = array();
if(!empty($url)){
foreach(explode('&', $url) as $part){
list($key, $value) = explode('=', $part, 2);
$query[$key] = $value;
}
}
You don't need to do that manually, PHP already provides this functionality in the $_GET global variable:
<?php
foreach($_GET as $key => $value)
echo $key . " : " . $value;
?>
If it is a GET request, then all the params will be in $_GET. A form POST will be in $_POST. Both are contained in $_REQUEST.
You're looking for the $_GET
superglobal
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
echo $key . ' -- ' . $value;
}
You can access any $_GET
values by using this code $_GET['sub1']
which will return sub-1
There is a much simpler way to do this rather than using a loop. Use the built in function parse_str(). It will split the request uri into key => value pairs. Example:
$url = "cat=3&sub1=sub-1&sub2=sub-2&sub3=sub-3&sub4=sub-4";
$query = array();
parse_str( $url, $query );
print_r($query);