implementation for parse_query_string

[kamil-tekiela]

As per RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/parse_str_alternative

[iluuu1994]

@kamil-tekiela Not much has happened here, are you still planning on pursuing this RFC?

[kamil-tekiela]

@kamil-tekiela Not much has happened here, are you still planning on pursuing this RFC?

Please leave it open for a few more weeks. I was meant to come back to it, but didn't get the time.

[kamil-tekiela]

I have withdrawn this RFC. While I stand by my stopgap solution, I also feel like this won't solve the issues plaguing the current query parsing solution and thus offers negligible improvement. I can't easily fix the existing implementation without completely redesigning it or providing an alternative extension. Even if we only wanted to stop value mangling, it would be a BC break that cannot be implemented in PHP 8.2.

If someone wants to pick it up, feel free. For PHP 9.0 we might consider replacing it and removing data mangling.

[johanrosenson]

@kamil-tekiela

I'm late to the party, but I'm sad to see this RFC being withdrawn.

I was looking forward for it just for the much improved name and dropping of output variable, for me that was enough to warrant this RFC.

But easy enough to implement in userland also i suppose (which i have done in some projects now inspired by this RFC, thanks!).