PHP return character after value in string

Question

I have a dynamic string that looks like this...

/tester?bc=7&tester=orange

Using PHP I am trying to return the single value after bc=

I have looked at strrchr but that doesn't seem to let me specify just returning one character, how should I be doing this?

haven't you used `$_GET` yet? or this string is literally inside a variable? just use `parse_str` — Kevin, Dec 03 '15 at 23:25
The string is inside a variable and not being generated by $_GET — fightstarr20, Dec 03 '15 at 23:27
so in this case, you would want to return `7` ? is `bc=7` will always be right after `?` ? — Andrew, Dec 03 '15 at 23:59
Possible duplicate of [How to get parameters from a URL string?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11480763/how-to-get-parameters-from-a-url-string) — mickmackusa, Nov 17 '18 at 00:30

Alexander Mikhalchenko · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-03T23:46:21.970

If the value is not from the request, you might want to use something like this:

$parsed = parse_url('/tester?bc=7&tester=orange');
parse_str($parsed['query'], $query);

The $query would contain this:

array(2) {
  ["bc"]=>
  string(1) "7"
  ["tester"]=>
  string(5) "orange"
}

Please mind that max_input_vars directive affects parse_str, so if your string would be extremely large, it might cut some parts.

Best regards, Alexander

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