Getting URL parameters

[Barguast]

Is there any way of extracting the URL parameters from a (relative) URL stored in a string? For example: "index.php?page=home&action=edit"

I want to be able to get at the {'page' => 'home', 'action' => 'edit' } data, much like with the $_GET associative array.

Is there a function in PHP to do this?

[laserlight]

Perhaps you are looking to use [man]parse_str/man, possibly after using [man]parse_url/man.