How to remove all this characters from my string?

Hi

My string is something like this:

editProduct.php?catid=86&productid=1045

From all this, I need to remove everything except 86. Anyone can help me to do this?

I am comming from ASP world, and I need help to do this in PHP

Thanks in advance

Zoreli

 

$string = 'editProduct.php?catid=86&productid=1045';
parse_str($string, $parts);

echo $parts['catid'];

PHP:

www.php.net/parse_str

 

Doesn't work

I copy & paste - and it doesnt work.

 

Hm

$string = 'editProduct.php?catid=86&productid=1045';
parse_str(end(explode('?', $string)), $parts);

echo $parts['catid'];

PHP:

 

Thanks Mate