Automatic parsing of a GET string

[Anon]

I read the article on having all URLs interpereted as PHP scripts, so that my site is both indexable by search engines (and has clean URLs) and also doesn't need a real file for each page. Since I don't have access to the server's httpd.conf, I used the method in another post of having my 404 page a PHP script that takes the URL and loads the appropriate content.

So my problem now is that HTTP GET variables aren't automatically passed. I can get the string containing them, but it might contain weird characters, like %22, and + characters instead of spaces, etc. Is there an easy way to parse this or do I have to do it manually?

[Anon]

if you are using spaces in your URL's then it will of course show as %20 by default or with +'s if you used urlencode()

you can use rawurldecode() whch removes all the %20's from the URL, then you can parse the rest of the URL in the string.

good luck,
Daarius..