build_url() as reverse to parse_url()

[cweiske]

Description

It would be nice if PHP had an inverse function to parse_url(): a function that takes the array produced by parse_url and re-builds it into a string.

This would make it easy to modify URL strings: parse it, modify the array, build it.

[iluuu1994]

Hi @cweiske. Good news, PHP 8.5 will introduce such an API (though not exactly in the way you propose). https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api

[cweiske]

Thank you!