Question

I want to forward users to a particular URL after posting a comment. I created the post action like this

$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$explode = explode('?posted_on',$referer);
$send_back_url = $explode[0]."?posted_on=".$post_id;

This works fine in when the referer URLs are in the following format

• http://www.xyz.com
• http://www.xyz.com?posted_on=123

But its not working when the referer URL is like

• http://www.xyz.com?post=12

because its trying to forward to

• http://www.xyz.com?post=12?posted_on=123 .

Actually it should forward to

• http://www.xyz.com?post=12&posted_on=123

Answer 1

Use

• parse_url to split the URL into its components
• parse_str to parse the query component.