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How can I get parameters from a URL string?


I have an HTML form field $_POST["url"], having some URL strings as the value.

Example values are:

https://example.com/test/[email protected]
https://example.com/test/[email protected]
https://example.com/test/[email protected]
https://example.com/test/[email protected]&testin=123
https://example.com/test/the-page-here/[email protected]

etc.

How can I get only the email parameter from these URLs/values?

Please note that I am not getting these strings from the browser address bar.


Solution

  • You can use the parse_url() and parse_str() for that.

    $parts = parse_url($url);
    parse_str($parts['query'], $query);
    echo $query['email'];
    

    If you want to get the $url dynamically with PHP, take a look at this question:

    Get the full URL in PHP