John Davidson

Message:

So I wrote some code that should simply take this

title=title&description=description&image=(some image here)&color=ff0000

And return this

echo $meta["title"] //title

echo $meta["description"] //description

echo $meta["image"] //(some image here)

echo $meta["color"] //ff0000

Instead, it only returns title for some reason...

<?php

    $url = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

    $url = substr($url, 2);

    $url = base64_decode($url);

    // title=title&description=description&image=(some image here)&color=ff0000

    // confusing part

    parse_str($url, $meta);

?>

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My Answer:
and parse it into an array using the `parse_str` function in PHP. However, it seems that `parse_str` is only returning the first parameter and not parsing the entire string into an array. Here is the code I wrote:

php
$queryString = "this_title=title&this_description=description&this_author=author";
parse_str($queryString, $output);

print_r($output);


When I run this code, the output I get is:


Array
(
[this_title] => title
)


As you can see, only the first parameter `this_title=title` is being parsed into the array, while the rest of the parameters are being ignored.

To fix this issue, you can use the `urldecode` function to decode the query string before passing it to `parse_str`. Here is the updated code:

php
$queryString = "this_title=title&this_description=description&this_author=author";
parse_str(urldecode($queryString), $output);

print_r($output);


Now, when you run this code, you should get the following output:


Array
(
[this_title] => title
[this_description] => description
[this_author] => author
)


This will parse the entire query string into an array as expected.