How can I get parameters from a URL string?

Question

I have an HTML form field $_POST["url"], having some URL strings as the value.

Example values are:

https://example.com/test/1234?email=xyz@test.com
https://example.com/test/1234?basic=2&email=xyz2@test.com
https://example.com/test/1234?email=xyz3@test.com
https://example.com/test/1234?email=xyz4@test.com&testin=123
https://example.com/test/the-page-here/1234?someurl=key&email=xyz5@test.com

etc.

How can I get only the email parameter from these URLs/values?

Please note that I am not getting these strings from the browser address bar.

Answer 1

You can use the parse_url() and parse_str() for that.

$parts = parse_url($url);
parse_str($parts['query'], $query);
echo $query['email'];

If you want to get the $url dynamically with PHP, take a look at this question:

Get the full URL in PHP

Answer 2

All the parameters after ? can be accessed using $_GET array. So,

echo $_GET['email'];

will extract the emails from urls.

Answer 3

Use the parse_url() and parse_str() methods. parse_url() will parse a URL string into an associative array of its parts. Since you only want a single part of the URL, you can use a shortcut to return a string value with just the part you want. Next, parse_str() will create variables for each of the parameters in the query string. I don't like polluting the current context, so providing a second parameter puts all the variables into an associative array.

$url = "https://mysite.com/test/1234?email=xyz4@test.com&testin=123";
$query_str = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($query_str, $query_params);
print_r($query_params);

//Output: Array ( [email] => xyz4@test.com [testin] => 123 ) 

Answer 4

As mentioned in another answer, the best solution is using parse_url().

You need to use a combination of parse_url() and parse_str().

The parse_url() parses the URL and return its components that you can get the query string using the query key. Then you should use parse_str() that parses the query string and returns values into a variable.

$url = "https://example.com/test/1234?basic=2&email=xyz2@test.com";
parse_str(parse_url($url)['query'], $params);
echo $params['email']; // xyz2@test.com

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Also you can do this work using regex: preg_match()

You can use preg_match() to get a specific value of the query string from a URL.

preg_match("/&?email=([^&]+)/", $url, $matches);
echo $matches[1]; // xyz2@test.com

preg_replace()

Also you can use preg_replace() to do this work in one line!

$email = preg_replace("/^https?:\/\/.*\?.*email=([^&]+).*$/", "$1", $url);
// xyz2@test.com

Answer 5

Use $_GET['email'] for parameters in URL. Use $_POST['email'] for posted data to script. Or use _$REQUEST for both. Also, as mentioned, you can use parse_url() function that returns all parts of URL. Use a part called 'query' - there you can find your email parameter. More info: http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

Answer 6

You can use the below code to get the email address after ? in the URL:

<?php
if (isset($_GET['email'])) {
    echo $_GET['email'];
}

Answer 7

I a created function from Ruel's answer.

You can use this:

function get_valueFromStringUrl($url , $parameter_name)
{
    $parts = parse_url($url);
    if(isset($parts['query']))
    {
        parse_str($parts['query'], $query);
        if(isset($query[$parameter_name]))
        {
            return $query[$parameter_name];
        }
        else
        {
            return null;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        return null;
    }
}

Example:

$url = "https://example.com/test/the-page-here/1234?someurl=key&email=xyz5@test.com";
echo get_valueFromStringUrl($url , "email");

Thanks to @Ruel.

Answer 8

$uri = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
$uriArray = explode('/', $uri);
$page_url = $uriArray[1];
$page_url2 = $uriArray[2];
echo $page_url; <- See the value

This is working great for me using PHP.

Answer 9

$web_url = 'http://www.writephponline.com?name=shubham&email=singh@gmail.com';
$query = parse_url($web_url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
parse_str($query, $queryArray);

echo "Name: " . $queryArray['name'];  // Result: shubham
echo "EMail: " . $queryArray['email']; // Result:singh@gmail.com

Answer 10

A much more secure answer that I'm surprised is not mentioned here yet:

filter_input

So in the case of the question you can use this to get an email value from the URL get parameters:

$email = filter_input( INPUT_GET, 'email', FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL );

For other types of variables, you would want to choose a different/appropriate filter such as FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING.

I suppose this answer does more than exactly what the question asks for - getting the raw data from the URL parameter. But this is a one-line shortcut that is the same result as this:

$email = $_GET['email'];
$email = filter_var( $email, FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL );

Might as well get into the habit of grabbing variables this way.

Answer 11

In Laravel, I'm using:

private function getValueFromString(string $string, string $key)
{
    parse_str(parse_url($string, PHP_URL_QUERY), $result);

    return isset($result[$key]) ? $result[$key] : null;
}

Answer 12

A dynamic function which parses string URL and gets the value of the query parameter passed in the URL:

function getParamFromUrl($url, $paramName){
  parse_str(parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY), $op); // Fetch query parameters from a string and convert to an associative array
  return array_key_exists($paramName, $op) ? $op[$paramName] : "Not Found"; // Check if the key exists in this array
}

Call the function to get a result:

echo getParamFromUrl('https://google.co.in?name=james&surname=bond', 'surname'); // "bond" will be output here