is there a way to protect get query parameters being overwriten?

[Anti-Moronic]

Say I have:

 

site.com/index.php?v=var&v=12

 

Is there a way to only parse the first occurrence?

 

 

[gizmola]

The $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] variable gives you the original query string, which you are free to parse up and handle yourself.  explode() using the '&' should work pretty well to get the name=value pairs.

[Anti-Moronic]

Thanks, I just found a solution to it somewhere else. Quite a useful nifty little function:

 

$query  = explode('&', $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
$params = array();

foreach( $query as $param )
{
  list($name, $value) = explode('=', $param);
  $params[urldecode($name)][] = urldecode($value);
}

 

I then parse those results and only use the first in the array (i.e. first occurrence of any given query string variable).

 

Thanks for the input!