Simple PHP script to destructure query arguments from an URL

parse_query_arguments.php

<?php
if (!isset($argv) || count($argv) !== 2) {
    die('Usage: ' . basename(__FILE__ ). ' {URL}'."\n");
}

$url = $argv[1];
if (empty($url)) {
    die("Empty URL");
}

$queryString = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);
$queryString = urldecode($queryString);
$queryArguments = explode('&', $queryString);

$arguments = [];
foreach($queryArguments as $queryArgument) {
    $argument = explode('=', $queryArgument);
    $value = $argument[1];

    if (preg_match('/^\{\"/', $value)) {
        $value = json_decode($value, true);
    } elseif (strstr($value, ',')) {
        $value = explode(', ', $value);
    }

    $arguments[$argument[0]] = $value;
}

print_r($arguments);