Query string with 2 same variables?

I have a query string with 2 variables with the same name and I want to get the value of the first variable m=: I want to get m="noodles"
query string:
?m=noodles&a=http://www.noodlesite.com?refid=ena_&s=d5h&cid=HDEna&dgc=IR&lid=SHP_BK1&m=abc

I am using the php code below, but I get m=abc instead of m=noodles:

$url = "?m=noodles&a=http://www.noodlesite.com?refid=ena_&s=d5h&cid=HDEna&dgc=IR&lid=SHP_BK1&m=abc"
parse_str($url, $myArray);
$m = $myArray['m'];

PHP:

 

hiiiii

Accroding to me query string with 2 same variable its possible but only 1 query string will work.why dont try 2 different query string to get variable.

Regards
devid

 

Hi,

That is bad programming - You should urlencode the URL you are passing in the query string..... which also means you wont have that problem.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

 

Try to encode your url with urlencode($url) function,should work perfectly

 

I can not encode a=http://www.noodlesite.com bit because the query string has been entered like that into the database, and if I encode $url then the whole thing is encoded, and I still will not get the first m=noodles

 

<?php
$url = "?m=noodles&a=http://www.noodlesite.com?refid=ena_&s=d5h&cid=HDEna&dgc=IR&lid=SHP_BK1&m=abc";
parse_str($url, $myArray);
$m = $myArray['?m'];
//output: noodles
echo $m;
?>

PHP:

 

thanks danx10