PHP url to array

Question

I have these urls from a web log:

http://www.domain.com/page?s=194&client=151678&m=a4a&v=1&g=54
http://www.domain.com/page?s=51&client=617171&m=b4z&v=8&g=97

How can I convert this URL in an array in PHPso i will have an array like this

array(
 'page' => array(
 's' => 194,
 'client' => 151678
 'm' => 'a4a',
 'v' => 1,
 'g' => 54
 )
 etc..
)

then later I can loop to that array to find duplicates or validate the information correctly.

Answer 1

PHP has a native function for that, the parse_str function. You can use it like:

parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $outputArray);

This will do just what you need.

• Dss: This is the preferred method as it supports any standard string that separates by & and =. Works great for curl responses as well

Answer 2

There may be a better way to do this but this is what I came up with.

<?php
 $url = 'http://www.domain.com/page?s=194&client=151678&m=a4a&v=1&g=54';
 $remove_http = str_replace('http://', '', $url);
 $split_url = explode('?', $remove_http);
 $get_page_name = explode('/', $split_url[0]);
 $page_name = $get_page_name[1];
 $split_parameters = explode('&', $split_url[1]);
 for($i = 0; $i < count($split_parameters); $i++) {
 $final_split = explode('=', $split_parameters[$i]);
 $split_complete[$page_name][$final_split[0]] = $final_split[1];
 }
 var_dump($split_complete);
?>

http://codepad.org/xTsAks46

Answer 3

With parse_url() you can parse the URL to an associative array. In the result array you get amongst others the query part. Then you can use parse_str() for parsing the query part to your new array.

Answer 4

Assuming from your question that path will always be /page, the array containing the parsed URLs cannot have multiple page indexes so you should use numeric indexes.

Try this:

$urls_parsed = array();
foreach ($url_strings as $url_string) {
 $url = parse_url($url_string);
 $urls_parsed[] = parse_str($url['query']);
}

$url_strings is an array containing all the URLs you want to parse in string format. $urls_parsed is the resulting array containing the URLs parsed in the format you requested.

Answer 5

Use parse_url function like

<?php
$url = 'http://username:password@hostname/path?arg=value#anchor';
print_r(parse_url($url));
echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_PATH);
?>

Which will give you the following array output

Array
(
[scheme] => http
[host] => hostname
[user] => username
[pass] => password
[path] => /path
[query] => arg=value
[fragment] => anchor
)

And from the query you can easily split it as to (key,value) paira. Hope this helps.:)

Answer 6

You could do:

function convertUrlToArray($url){
 $url = str_replace("http://www.domain.com/page?", "", $url);
 $urlExploded = explode("&", $url);
 $return = array();
 foreach ($urlExploded as $param){
 $explodedPar = explode("=", $param);
 $return[$explodedPar[0]] = $explodedPar[1];
 }
 return $return;
}
$url1 = convertUrlToArray("http://www.domain.com/page?s=51&client=617171&m=b4z&v=8&g=97");
var_dump($url1);

example here http://codepad.org/KIDKPzaU