How to get multiple parameters with same name from a URL in PHP

Question 1

I have a PHP application that will on occasion have to handle URLs where more than one parameter in the URL will have the same name. Is there an easy way to retrieve all the values for a given key? PHP $_GET returns only the last value.

To make this concrete, my application is an OpenURL resolver, and may get URL parameters like this:

ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&rft_id=info:oclcnum/1903126
&rft_id=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4323
&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book
&rft.genre=book
&rft.btitle=At last: a Christmas in the West Indies. 
&rft.place=London,
&rft.pub=Macmillan and co.,
&rft.aufirst=Charles
&rft.aulast=Kingsley
&rft.au=Kingsley, Charles,
&rft.pages=1-352
&rft.tpages=352
&rft.date=1871

(Yes, I know it's ugly, welcome to my world). Note that the key "rft_id" appears twice:

rft_id=info:oclcnum/1903126
rft_id=http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4323

$_GET will return just http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4323, the earlier value (info:oclcnum/1903126) having been overwritten.

I'd like to get access to both values. Is this possible in PHP? If not, any thoughts on how to handle this problem?

Question 2

Something like:

$query  = explode('&', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
$params = array();

foreach( $query as $param )
{
  // prevent notice on explode() if $param has no '='
  if (strpos($param, '=') === false) $param += '=';

  list($name, $value) = explode('=', $param, 2);
  $params[urldecode($name)][] = urldecode($value);
}

gives you:

array(
  'ctx_ver'     => array('Z39.88-2004'),
  'rft_id'      => array('info:oclcnum/1903126', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4323'),
  'rft_val_fmt' => array('info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book'),
  'rft.genre'   => array('book'),
  'rft.btitle'  => array('At last: a Christmas in the West Indies.'),
  'rft.place'   => array('London'),
  'rft.pub'     => array('Macmillan and co.'),
  'rft.aufirst' => array('Charles'),
  'rft.aulast'  => array('Kingsley'),
  'rft.au'      => array('Kingsley, Charles'),
  'rft.pages'   => array('1-352'),
  'rft.tpages'  => array('352'),
  'rft.date'    => array('1871')
)

Since it's always possible that one URL parameter is repeated, it's better to always have arrays, instead of only for those parameters where you anticipate them.

Question 3

You try to assign a value with same name.so your last value replace with the existing value.

for example :your URL look like,

http://www.example.com/index.php?finished_product_name=abc&material_name=xxx&finished_product_name=pqr&material_name=yyy

so your $_GET['finished_product_name'] has value is pqr not abc.

If you can change the field name with include [], then PHP will create an array containing all of the matching values:

http://www.example.com/index.php?id[]=123&version[]=3&id[]=234&version[]=4

your URL example like,

http://www.example.com/index.php?finished_product_name[]=abc&material_name[]=xxx&finished_product_name[]=pqr&material_name[]=yyy

your for loop is :

for ($i=0; $i < count($_POST['finished_product_name']); $i++ )
{
    $product =$_POST['finished_product_name'][$i];
    $material = $_POST['material_name'][$i];
    $quantity = $_POST'product_quantity'][$i]; 
}

How to get multiple parameters with same name from a URL in PHP

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