Question

Hello I know all about http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.http-build-query.php to do this however I have a little problem.

It “handly” turns boolean values into ones and zeros for me. I am building a little PHP wrapper for the Stack Overflow api and parsing an option array and then sending this onto the api breaks things..(doesn’t like 1 for true).

What I would like is a simple function to turn a single dimensional array into a query string but turning true/false into string values of true/false.

Anyone know of anything that can do this before I start re-inventing the wheel

Answer 1

I don’t know of anything offhand. What I’d recommend is first iterating through the array and covert booleans to strings, then call http_build_query

E.g.

foreach($options_array as $key=>$value) :
    if(is_bool($value) ){
        $options_array[$key] = ($value) ? 'true' : 'false';
    }
endforeach;
$options_string=http_build_query($options_array);