Manipulate a url string by adding GET parameters

Question

I want to add GET parameters to URLs that may and may not contain GET parameters without repeating ? or &.

Example:

If I want t

Answer 1

Use strpos to detect a ?. Since ? can only appear in the URL at the beginning of a query string, you know if its there get params already exist and you need to add params using &

function addGetParamToUrl(&$url, $varName, $value)
{
    // is there already an ?
    if (strpos($url, "?"))
    {
        $url .= "&" . $varName . "=" . $value; 
    }
    else
    {
        $url .= "?" . $varName . "=" . $value;
    }
}