If you need the key names preserved and don't want spaces or . or unmatched [ or ] replaced by an underscore, yet you want all the other goodies of parse_str(), like turning matched [] into array elements, you can use this code as a base for that.
<?php
const periodPlaceholder = 'QQleQPunT';
const spacePlaceholder = 'QQleQSpaTIE';
function parse_str_clean($querystr): array {
$qquerystr = str_ireplace(['.','%2E','+',' ','%20'], [periodPlaceholder,periodPlaceholder,spacePlaceholder,spacePlaceholder,spacePlaceholder], $querystr);
$arr = null ; parse_str($qquerystr, $arr);
sanitizeKeys($arr, $querystr);
return $arr;
}
function sanitizeKeys(&$arr, $querystr) {
foreach($arr as $key=>$val) {
$newval = $val ;
if ( is_string($val)) {
$newval = str_replace([periodPlaceholder,spacePlaceholder], ["."," "], $val);
}
$newkey = str_replace([periodPlaceholder,spacePlaceholder], ["."," "], $key);
if ( str_contains($newkey, '_') ) {
$regex = '/&('.str_replace('_', '[ \.\[\]]', preg_quote($newkey, '/')).')=/';
$matches = null ;
if ( preg_match_all($regex, "&".urldecode($querystr), $matches) ) {
if ( count(array_unique($matches[1])) === 1 && $key != $matches[1][0] ) {
$newkey = $matches[1][0] ;
}
}
}
if ( $newkey != $key ) {
unset($arr[$key]);
$arr[$newkey] = $newval ;
} elseif( $val != $newval )
$arr[$key] = $newval;
if ( is_array($val)) {
sanitizeKeys($arr[$newkey], $querystr);
}
}
}
?>
For example:
parse_str_clean("code.1=printr%28hahaha&code 1=448044&test.mijn%5B%5D%5B2%5D=test%20Roemer&test%5Bmijn=test%202e%20Roemer");
Produces:
array(4) {
["code.1"]=>
string(13) "printr(hahaha"
["code 1"]=>
string(6) "448044"
["test.mijn"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
array(1) {
[2]=>
string(11) "test Roemer"
}
}
["test[mijn"]=>
string(14) "test 2e Roemer"
}
Whereas if you feed the same querystring to parse_str, you will get
array(2) {
["code_1"]=>
string(6) "448044"
["test_mijn"]=>
string(14) "test 2e Roemer"
}
