PHP send arrays through GET

Question

I know I should be able to create arrays through GET by creating a url such as

?sort[]=four&sort[price]=five&sort[status]=good

and receive

$_GET['sort'] = ['four','price'=>'five','status'=>'good'];

but instead, when trying to access $_GET['sort'] I get an undefined index for 'sort' and the only keys for $_GET are 'sort[]', 'sort[price]', 'sort[status]'.

What do I need to change to make this work as expected?

I would advice looking into this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1763508/passing-arrays-as-url-parameter/1764199#1764199 — thefolenangel, Aug 28 '17 at 15:56
Possible duplicate of [How to send PHP array by html form by POST type](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11684274/how-to-send-php-array-by-html-form-by-post-type) — t1gor, Aug 28 '17 at 15:59
@thefolenangel I actually attempted that solution prior to asking the question and the keys for GET in that case are `'sort%5B0%5D'`, so essentially the same issue — PAndrews, Aug 28 '17 at 16:13

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '17 at 16:23

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Your GET query string is correctly parsed by PHP on my machine so I don't think there is anything wrong with your syntax.

What you can do as a workaround is manually parse the query string and populate $_GET

parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_GET);

$_GET is now:

[
  'sort' => [
      0        => 'four',
      'price'  => 'five',
      'status' => 'good',
  ],
]

answered Aug 28 '17 at 16:23

BeetleJuice

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This worked. clearly something is overriding how the variables are being parsed that I need to find and adjust. Thank you – PAndrews Aug 28 '17 at 17:46

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '17 at 15:58

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"http://example.com?".http_build_query(['four','price'=>'five','status'=>'good'])

Documentation

answered Aug 28 '17 at 15:58

t1gor

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this works for sending individual keys which I wasn't having problems with before, but this method still doesn't work for what I am trying to do, which is `"http://example.com?".http_build_query(['sort'=>['four','price'=>'five','status'=>'good']])`. gives me `$_GET['sort%5B0%5D' => 'four',...]` etc – PAndrews Aug 28 '17 at 16:17
See example 3 on docs page. If that still does not work with GET, you can try to parse the query string by yorself. See parse_str – t1gor Aug 28 '17 at 16:23

PHP send arrays through GET

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