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: stackoverflow.com/questions/1763508/… — thefolenangel
– thefolenangel, Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 15:56
Possible duplicate of How to send PHP array by html form by POST type — t1gor
– t1gor, Commented Aug 28, 2017 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
– PAndrews, Commented Aug 28, 2017 at 16:13

BeetleJuice · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-28 16:23:35Z

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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, 2017 at 16:23

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PAndrews Over a year ago

This worked. clearly something is overriding how the variables are being parsed that I need to find and adjust. Thank you

t1gor · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-28 15:58:12Z

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

Documentation

answered Aug 28, 2017 at 15:58

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PAndrews Over a year ago

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

t1gor Over a year ago

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

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