parse_url question: Way to iterate through arguments?

[jjfletch]

If I have a URL:

http://www.something.com/index.php?color=red&item=shoes&store=macys

I know that I can parse the url using parse_url to separate out the arguments, but is there a way that I can separate out each argument into a variable?

Like

$color = red
$item = shoes
$store = macys

?

Thanks

[laserlight]

Use [man]parse_str/man on the query element of the array returned by [man]parse_url/man.

[bradgrafelman]

So you basically want to take all of the arguments passed via the query string and [man]extract/man them into variables? (i.e. extract($_GET); ).

(Note I wouldn't recommend doing this, since that's basically duplicating the big security risk of register_globals all over again.)