Params with null value do not present in result string.
<?php
$arr = array('test' => null, 'test2' => 1);
echo http_build_query($arr);
?>
will produce:
test2=1
(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
http_build_query — 生成 URL-encode 之后的请求字符串
$data,$numeric_prefix = "",$arg_separator = null,$encoding_type = PHP_QUERY_RFC1738使用给出的关联（或下标）数组生成一个经过 URL-encode 的请求字符串。
data可以是数组或包含属性的对象。
如果 data 是数组，可以是一维结构，也可以是由数组组成的数组（其依次可以包含其它数组）。
如果 data 是一个对象，只有 public 的属性会加入结果。
numeric_prefix如果在基础数组中使用了数字下标同时给出了该参数，此参数值将会作为基础数组中的数字下标元素的前缀。
这是为了让 PHP 或其它 CGI 程序在稍后对数据进行解码时获取合法的变量名。
arg_separator
参数分隔符。如果未设置或为 null，arg_separator.output
用于分隔参数。
encoding_type
默认使用 PHP_QUERY_RFC1738。
如果 encoding_type 是 PHP_QUERY_RFC1738，则编码将会以
» RFC 1738 标准和 application/x-www-form-urlencoded
媒体类型进行编码，空格会被编码成加号（+）。
如果 encoding_type 是 PHP_QUERY_RFC3986，将根据
» RFC 3986 编码，空格会被百分号编码（%20）。
返回一个 URL 编码后的字符串。
| 版本 | 说明 |
|---|---|
| 8.0.0 |
arg_separator 现在可为 null。
|
示例 #1 http_build_query() 使用示例
<?php
$data = array(
'foo' => 'bar',
'baz' => 'boom',
'cow' => 'milk',
'null' => null,
'php' => 'hypertext processor'
);
echo http_build_query($data) . "\n";
echo http_build_query($data, '', '&');
?>以上示例会输出：
foo=bar&baz=boom&cow=milk&php=hypertext+processor foo=bar&baz=boom&cow=milk&php=hypertext+processor
示例 #2 http_build_query() 使用数字下标的元素
<?php
$data = array('foo', 'bar', 'baz', null, 'boom', 'cow' => 'milk', 'php' => 'hypertext processor');
echo http_build_query($data) . "\n";
echo http_build_query($data, 'myvar_');
?>以上示例会输出：
0=foo&1=bar&2=baz&4=boom&cow=milk&php=hypertext+processor myvar_0=foo&myvar_1=bar&myvar_2=baz&myvar_4=boom&cow=milk&php=hypertext+processor
示例 #3 http_build_query() 使用复杂的数组
<?php
$data = array(
'user' => array(
'name' => 'Bob Smith',
'age' => 47,
'sex' => 'M',
'dob' => '5/12/1956'
),
'pastimes' => array('golf', 'opera', 'poker', 'rap'),
'children' => array(
'bobby' => array('age'=>12, 'sex'=>'M'),
'sally' => array('age'=>8, 'sex'=>'F')
),
'CEO'
);
echo http_build_query($data, 'flags_');
?>上面的例子将输出：（为了可读性，字已经换行了）
user%5Bname%5D=Bob+Smith&user%5Bage%5D=47&user%5Bsex%5D=M& user%5Bdob%5D=5%2F12%2F1956&pastimes%5B0%5D=golf&pastimes%5B1%5D=opera& pastimes%5B2%5D=poker&pastimes%5B3%5D=rap&children%5Bbobby%5D%5Bage%5D=12& children%5Bbobby%5D%5Bsex%5D=M&children%5Bsally%5D%5Bage%5D=8& children%5Bsally%5D%5Bsex%5D=F&flags_0=CEO
注意:
只有基础数组中的数字下标元素“CEO”才获取了前缀，其它数字下标元素（如 pastimes 下的元素）则不需要为了合法的变量名而加上前缀。
示例 #4 http_build_query() 使用对象
<?php
class parentClass {
public $pub = 'publicParent';
protected $prot = 'protectedParent';
private $priv = 'privateParent';
public $pub_bar = null;
protected $prot_bar = null;
private $priv_bar = null;
public function __construct(){
$this->pub_bar = new childClass();
$this->prot_bar = new childClass();
$this->priv_bar = new childClass();
}
}
class childClass {
public $pub = 'publicChild';
protected $prot = 'protectedChild';
private $priv = 'privateChild';
}
$parent = new parentClass();
echo http_build_query($parent);
?>以上示例会输出：
pub=publicParent&pub_bar%5Bpub%5D=publicChild
Params with null value do not present in result string.
<?php
$arr = array('test' => null, 'test2' => 1);
echo http_build_query($arr);
?>
will produce:
test2=1Passing null to $arg_separator is the same as passing an empty string, which is probably not what you want.
If you need to change the enc_type, use this:
http_build_query($query, null, '&', PHP_QUERY_RFC3986);
Or possibly this:
http_build_query($query, null, ini_get('arg_separator.output'), PHP_QUERY_RFC3986);
But not this:
// BAD CODE!
http_build_query($query, null, null, PHP_QUERY_RFC3986);This function makes like this
files[0]=1&files[1]=2&...
To do it like this:
files[]=1&files[]=2&...
Do this:
$query = http_build_query($query);
$query = preg_replace('/%5B[0-9]+%5D/simU', '%5B%5D', $query);if you send boolean values it transform in integer :
$a = [teste1= true,teste2=false];
echo http_build_query($a)
//result will be teste1=1&teste2=0Number to string conversion occured in <?php http_build_query() ?> is affected by locale settings, which might not be obvious.
<?php
$params = ["v" => 5.63];
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'us_En');
http_build_query($params) // v=5.63
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ru_RU');
http_build_query($params) // v=5,63 mind the comma
?>As noted before, with php5.3 the separator is & on some servers it seems. Normally if posting to another php5.3 machine this will not be a problem.
But if you post to a tomcat java server or something else the & might not be handled properly.
To overcome this specify:
http_build_query($array, '', '&');
and NOT
http_build_query($array); //gives & to some serversIf you need the inverse functionality, and (like me) you cannot use pecl_http, you may want to use something akin to the following.
<?php function http_parse_query($Query) {
// mimic the behavior of $_GET, see also RFC 1738 and 3986.
$Delimiter = ini_get('arg_separator.input');
$Params = array();
foreach (explode($Delimiter, $Query) as $NameValue) {
preg_match(
'/^(?P<name>[^=\[]*)(?P<indices_present>\[(?P<indices>[^\]]*(\]\[[^\]]*)*)\]?)?(?P<value_present>=(?P<value>.*))?$/',
$NameValue,
$NameValueParts
);
if (!empty($NameValueParts)) {
$Param =& $Params[$NameValueParts['name']];
if (!empty($NameValueParts['indices_present'])) {
$Indices = explode('][', $NameValueParts['indices']);
foreach ($Indices as $Index) {
if (!is_array($Param)) {
$Param = array();
}
if ($Index === '') {
$Param[] = array();
end($Param);
$Param =& $Param[key($Param)];
} else {
if (ctype_digit($Index)) { $Index = (int) $Index; }
if (!array_key_exists($Index, $Param)) {
$Param[$Index] = array();
}
$Param =& $Param[$Index];
}
}
}
if (!empty($NameValueParts['value_present'])) {
$Param = urldecode($NameValueParts['value']);
} else {
$Param = '';
}
}
}
return $Params;
}?>Is it worth noting that if query_data is an associative array and a value is itself an empty array, or an array of nothing but empty array (or arrays containing only empty arrays etc.), the corresponding key will not appear in the resulting query string?
E.g.
$post_data = array('name'=>'miller', 'address'=>array('address_lines'=>array()), 'age'=>23);
echo http_build_query($post_data);
will print
name=miller&age=23Be careful about Example 1 -- it is exactly how *not* to implement things.
& as a separator is the URL encoding.
& is HTML encoding.
You should HTML encode your URL if embedding it in a web page. This is more involved than just replacing & with &. Doing as this example suggests is a security hole waiting to happen.When using the http_build_query function to create a URL query from an array for use in something like curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_url), be careful about the url encoding.
In my case, I simply wanted to pass on the received $_POST data to a CURL's POST data, which requires it to be in the URL format. If something like a space [ ] goes into the http_build_query, it comes out as a +. If you're then sending this off for POST again, you won't get the expected result. This is good for GET but not POST.
Instead you can make your own simple function if you simply want to pass along the data:
<?php
$post_url = '';
foreach ($_POST AS $key=>$value)
$post_url .= $key.'='.$value.'&';
$post_url = rtrim($post_url, '&');
?>
You can then use this to pass along POST data in CURL.
<?php
$ch = curl_init($some_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_url);
curl_exec($ch);
?>
Note that at the final page that processes the POST data, you should be properly filtering/escaping it.As noted, this function omits keys with null values. This could break some code which treats the key as boolean, and so has no value, or other code expecting the array to be populated regardless of value.
A workaround for this is to replace the null values with an empty string:
$data=array(
'a'=>'apple',
'b'=>2,
'c'=>null,
'd'=>'…',
);
// Compensate for fact that http_build_query omits null values
foreach($data as &$datum) if($datum===null) $datum='';
Losing the null-ness of the original is no real loss if it’s supposed to be a real query string. If the null is important, you could use a dummy value instead.
MarkCorrect implementation of coding the array of params without indexes (valdikks fixed code - didnt work for inner arrays):
<code>
function cr_post($a,$b='',$c=0)
{
if (!is_array($a)) return false;
foreach ((array)$a as $k=>$v)
{
if ($c)
{
if( is_numeric($k) )
$k=$b."[]";
else
$k=$b."[$k]";
}
else
{ if (is_int($k))
$k=$b.$k;
}
if (is_array($v)||is_object($v))
{
$r[]=cr_post($v,$k,1);
continue;
}
$r[]=urlencode($k)."=".urlencode($v);
}
return implode("&",$r);
}
</code>When using http_build_query($args) where $args is an array; note that there is a limit to the size of array. See max_input_vars in your php.ini to increase this size.I noticed that even with the magic quotes disabled, http_build_query() automagically adds slashes to strings.
So, I had to add "stripslashes" to every string variable.on my install of PHP 5.3, http_build_query() seems to use & as the default separator. Kind of interesting when combined with stream_context_create() for a POST request, and getting $_POST['amp;fieldName'] on the receiving end.Warning: Different arrays may return the same result
<CODE>
$a1 = array('x[y]' => array('a'=>1));
$a2 = array('x' => array('y' => array('a'=>1)));
$q1 = http_build_query($a1);
$q2 = http_build_query($a2);
var_dump($a1);
echo '<BR>';
var_dump($a2);
echo '<BR>';
echo $q1;
echo '<BR>';
echo $q2;
echo '<BR>';
</CODE>
Result:
array(1) { ["x[y]"]=> array(1) { ["a"]=> int(1) } }
array(1) { ["x"]=> array(1) { ["y"]=> array(1) { ["a"]=> int(1) } } }
x%5By%5D%5Ba%5D=1
x%5By%5D%5Ba%5D=1It's not mentioned in the documentation, but when calling http_build_query on an object, public null fields are ignored.
<?php
class A {
public int $publicNotNull;
public ?int $publicNull;
private string $privateNotNull;
public function __construct()
{
$this->publicNotNull = 2;
$this->privateNotNull = "Test";
}
}
$a = new A();
echo http_build_query($a); // publicNotNull=2
?>While http_build_query can also be used to encode most classes, into a query string, SimpleXML Elements with <![CDATA[]]> values are picked up as empty arrays, and therefore aren't included naturally.
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_string( '<wrapper><key><![CDATA[value]]></key><key2>value2</key2></wrapper>' );
var_dump( $xml, http_build_query( $xml ) );
/* Outputs:
object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (2) {
["key"]=>
object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (0) {
}
["key2"]=>
string(6) "value2"
}
string(11) "key2=value2"
*/
?>