// 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] […]