Parse an URL and gets the query string as php array

get-url-query-string-as-array.php

<?php 

  /**
   * Parse the URL and return the query string as PHP array
   *
   * @param string $url
   *
   * @return array
   */

  function getQueryStringAsArray($url = '') {

      $url = trim($url);

      if(!$url) {
          return array();
      }

      $queryString = trim(parse_url($url,PHP_URL_QUERY));

      if(!$queryString) {
          return array();
      }

      $queryArray = array();

      parse_str($queryString,$queryArray);

      return $queryArray;

  }