Converting var name value pairs

[rogair]

Possibly very simple question.
I'm receiving a string of the form:

var1=value&var2=value&var3=value

Is there a function for converting these into real variables useable by PHP? This is not coming back as an http post, but just a string.

Thanks,
Roger

[devinemke]

that looks suspiciously like an URL query string, in which case you already have those vars in the $_GET array. however is that is just a regular string:

$string = 'var1=val1&var2=val2&var3=val3';

$explode = explode('&', $string);
foreach ($explode as $value)
{
	$explode2 = explode('=', $value);
	$$explode2[0] = $explode2[1];
}

[rogair]

Thanks, what I meant is that the vars are not coming across in the URL. they are not available in the $_get array.

Thanks for the little function. Pretty much where I was headed, I didn't know if there was a built in, and couldn't find anything in the manual.