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I have these urls from a web log:

http://www.domain.com/page?s=194&client=151678&m=a4a&v=1&g=54
http://www.domain.com/page?s=51&client=617171&m=b4z&v=8&g=97

How can I convert this URL in an array in PHPso i will have an array like this

array(
 'page' => array(
   's' => 194,
   'client' => 151678
   'm' => 'a4a',
   'v' => 1,
   'g' => 54
 )
 etc..
)

then later I can loop to that array to find duplicates or validate the information correctly.

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There may be a better way to do this but this is what I came up with.

<?php

    $url = 'http://www.domain.com/page?s=194&client=151678&m=a4a&v=1&g=54';
    $remove_http = str_replace('http://', '', $url);
    $split_url = explode('?', $remove_http);
    $get_page_name = explode('/', $split_url[0]);
    $page_name = $get_page_name[1];

    $split_parameters = explode('&', $split_url[1]);

    for($i = 0; $i < count($split_parameters); $i++) {
        $final_split = explode('=', $split_parameters[$i]);
        $split_complete[$page_name][$final_split[0]] = $final_split[1];
    }

    var_dump($split_complete);

?>

http://codepad.org/xTsAks46

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Thank you very much – eric Nov 9 '11 at 15:54
very comprehensive - thanks. – foxybagga Mar 11 at 12:20
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With parse_url() you can parse the URL to an associative array. In the result array you get amongst others the query part. Then you can use parse_str() for parsing the query part to your new array.

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Assuming from your question that path will always be /page, the array containing the parsed URLs cannot have multiple page indexes so you should use numeric indexes.

Try this:

$urls_parsed = array();
foreach ($url_strings as $url_string) {
    $url = parse_url($url_string);
    $urls_parsed[] = parse_str($url['query']);
}

$url_strings is an array containing all the URLs you want to parse in string format. $urls_parsed is the resulting array containing the URLs parsed in the format you requested.

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You could do:

function convertUrlToArray($url){
    $url = str_replace("http://www.domain.com/page?", "", $url);
    $urlExploded =  explode("&", $url);
    $return = array();
    foreach ($urlExploded as $param){
        $explodedPar = explode("=", $param);
         $return[$explodedPar[0]] = $explodedPar[1];
    }
    return $return;

}

$url1 = convertUrlToArray("http://www.domain.com/page?s=51&client=617171&m=b4z&v=8&g=97");
var_dump($url1);

example here http://codepad.org/KIDKPzaU

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that works but I am missing the "page" – eric Nov 9 '11 at 15:32
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PHP has a native function for that:

parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $outputArray);

Will do just what you need.

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how this will work for web log? – Tech4Wilco Nov 13 '11 at 14:47
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