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GeXus
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extract parameter from a url

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I have a lot of URL's in a database, that are like this

http://www.domain.com/something/?name=o ... d2=1231515

How would I extract the url value from this as a text string?

Thanks!
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aceconcepts
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Re: extract parameter from a url

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What do you mean by url value?
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Re: extract parameter from a url

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Take a look at parse_url() and parse_str() for the query string
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Re: extract parameter from a url

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:wink:

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<?php 
$url = "http://www.domain.com/something/?name=name&d2=1231515";
$parse_result = parse_url($url);
if (!empty($parse_result['query'])){
    $values = array();
    parse_str($parse_result['query'], $values);
    print_r($values);
} 
?>
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