<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Parse GET/POST/COOKIE data and set global variable</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.mb-output-handler.html">mb_output_handler</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.mb-preferred-mime-name.html">mb_preferred_mime_name</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.mbstring.html">Multibyte String Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.mb-parse-str" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">mb_parse_str</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">mb_parse_str</span> — <span class="dc-title">Parse GET/POST/COOKIE data and set global variable</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.mb-parse-str-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>mb_parse_str</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$encoded_string</code></span> [, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">array</span> <code class="parameter reference">&$result</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Parses GET/POST/COOKIE data and sets global variables. Since PHP does not provide raw POST/COOKIE data, it can only be used for GET data for now. It parses URL encoded data, detects encoding, converts coding to internal encoding and set values to the <em><code class="parameter">result</code></em> <span class="type"><a href="language.types.array.html" class="type array">array</a></span> or global variables. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.mb-parse-str-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">encoded_string</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The URL encoded data. </p> </dd> </dt> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">result</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> An <span class="type"><a href="language.types.array.html" class="type array">array</a></span> containing decoded and character encoded converted values. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.mb-parse-str-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.mb-parse-str-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-detect-order.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_detect_order()</a> - Set/Get character encoding detection order</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-internal-encoding.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">mb_internal_encoding()</a> - Set/Get internal character encoding</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.mb-output-handler.html">mb_output_handler</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.mb-preferred-mime-name.html">mb_preferred_mime_name</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.mbstring.html">Multibyte String Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>