Question

I would like to convert the current querystring ( or any key/value pair based strng ) into an assoc array.

is there a php function that does that already?

$my_var  = "age=45&name=john";
$my_ary = explode_into_an_assoc_array("&",$my_var)

//and now I can go as

echo $my_ary['name'] prints john

Answer 1

parse_str($str, $arr);
from
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php

i.e.

<?php
$my_var  = "age=45&name=john";
$arr = Array();
parse_str($my_var, $arr);
print_r($arr);
?>