// parse_url:$url = "http://www.jonasjohn.de/post.php?example=yes&text=foobar";
$url = parse_url($url);print_r($url);
/*
will return this array:[scheme] => http
[host] => www.jonasjohn.de
[path] => /post.php
[query] => example=yes&text=foobar
*/// urldecode & urlencode:
$query = "example=yes&text=foo%28bar%29%2B";
print urldecode($query); // opposite: urlencode
// output: example=yes&text=foo(bar)+// parse the query:
parse_str($query, $output);
print_r($output);/*
will return this array:[example] => yes
=> foo(bar)+
*/[/php]
Quelle: Jonasjohn