string parsing?

[KashKurcura]

I know this is most likely a really simple answer to this.. but if I had a variable that had a url stored in it, how do i parse down the string into its other variables?

the variable..

$url = "http://www.foo.org?var1=some&var2=more&var3=stuff"

to get..

$var1 = some
$var2 = more
$var3 = stuff

Thanks for any help.

[NogDog]

<?php
$url = "http://www.foo.org?var1=some&var2=more&var3=stuff";

parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $urlData);

header('Content-Type: text/plain');
print_r($urlData);
// OUTPUT:
/*
Array
(
    [var1] => some
    [var2] => more
    [var3] => stuff
)
*/

You can omit the second parameter to parse_str ("$urlData" in this example) and it will then create separate scalar variables for each value, but this has the potential of name-space clashes if not done carefully.