[PHP-NOTES] note 130479 added to function.parse-str

[email protected] ("[email protected]") Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:16:09 +0000
Newsgroups php.notes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A simple though strict (and cleanly coded) version of the native function though without the pointless string replacement of periods with underscores:

<?php
function parse_query_string_mailto()
{//2025-09-11; Used in place of PHP's native parse_str() which pointlessly replaces periods with underscores:
 $r = false;

 $qs = ((isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) ? urldecode($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) : false);

 if ($qs && strpos($qs, 'mailto:'))
 {
  $s = explode('mailto:', $qs, 2);

  if (count($s) == 2)
  {
   $r = array();
   $pairs = explode('&', $s[1]);

   foreach ($pairs as $pair)
   {
    $p = explode('=', $pair, 2);
    $r[$p[0]] = urldecode($p[1]);
   }
  }
 }

 return $r;
}
?>

Example relative URL:
mail/compose/?mailto%3Asubject%3DTest%2520Subject%26body%3DHello%2520World!%26from%3Duser%40example.com
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Server IP: 45.112.84.4
Probable Submitter: 45.112.84.18 (proxied: 45.134.140.56)
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