Get URL query string parameters

Question

What is the \"less code needed\" way to get parameters from a URL query string which is formatted like the following?

www.mysite.com/category/subcateg

Answer 1

The PHP way to do it is using the function parse_url, which parses a URL and return its components. Including the query string.

Example:

$url = 'www.mysite.com/category/subcategory?myqueryhash';
echo parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY); # output "myqueryhash"

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