Passing array in query string

[Max Woofer]

I need to pass an array from one page to another in the query string. How can I turn an array into a parseable string?

[Web Xman]

The easiest is to serialize it and then encode it.

Code

<?php
$a = array('x' => '&quot;', '&amp;' => 3);
$a = rawurlencode(serialize($a));
echo '<a href="./getarray.php?a=' . $a . '">Pass array</a>';
?>

The receiving getarray.php page:

Code

<?php
header('Content-Type: text/plain');
$a = unserialize($_GET['a']);
print_r($a);
?>

The header is there only to avoid HTML parsing by the browser in the example. You will not need it in a real program.