How to pass an array via $_GET in php?

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You can use the [] syntax to pass arrays through _GET:

?a[]=1&a[]=2&a[]=3

PHP understands this syntax, so $_GET['a'] will be equal to array(1, 2, 3).

You can also specify keys:

?a[42]=1&a[foo]=2&a[bar]=3

Multidimentional arrays work too:

?a[42][b][c]=1&a[foo]=2

http_build_query() does this automatically:

http_build_query(array('a' => array(1, 2, 3))) // "a[]=1&a[]=2&a[]=3"

http_build_query(array(
    'a' => array(
        'foo' => 'bar',
        'bar' => array(1, 2, 3),
     )
)); // "a[foo]=bar&a[bar][]=1&a[bar][]=2&a[bar][]=3"

An alternative would be to pass json encoded arrays:

?a=[1,2,3]

And you can parse a with json_decode:

$a = json_decode($_GET['a']); // array(1, 2, 3)

And encode it again with json_encode:

json_encode(array(1, 2, 3)); // "[1,2,3]"

Dont ever use serialize() for this purpose. Serialize allows to serialize objects, and there is ways to make them execute code. So you should never deserialize untrusted strings.

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