How do I parse URL GET data having the URL stored in a variable?

Question

I have an url stored in a variable such as:

$url = \'example.com?a=20&i=10\'

How do I get values stored in variable a and vari

Answer 1

If you want to access those variables, check out the extract() function, it will create variables $a and $i from the parse_str() function above.

However, it will overwrite any existing variable called $a so its to be used with caution.