Decode a URL into an array, not a string

Question

I am currently working with the PayPals API and want to convert one of its responses from a name-value pair to an array.

So far, I have used urldecode() to decode the answer to the following:

 RECEIVERBUSINESS=[e-mail] & RECEIVEREMAIL=[e-mail] &MOREINFO=lots more info` 

I would like to have the following:

 RECEIVERBUSINESS => ' [e-mail] ' RECEIVEREMAIL => ' [e-mail] ' MOREINFO => 'lots more info' 

I'm just not quite sure how to get there!

Answer 1

parse_str is what you are looking for:

 parse_str(' RECEIVERBUSINESS=[e-mail] & RECEIVEREMAIL=[e-mail] &MOREINFO=lots more info', $arr); /* print_r($arr); Array ( [RECEIVERBUSINESS] => [e-mail] [RECEIVEREMAIL] => [e-mail] [MOREINFO] => lots more info ) */ 

Answer 2

Take a look at explode -

 // poulate array from URL parameters $returnedInfo = explode('&', $dataStringFromUrl); 

http://us.php.net/explode