small error with my regular expression

Hello,

I am taking the URL’s query string and trying to store the contents into an array for future use.

I thought I cracked it this morning, but my regular expression is wrong.

I would ideally like:
– To store each query string element into a key/value array
– But but my limited skillset has restricted me to storing just the key into an array

My regular expression finds matches but it was not what I expected:
– it prints a series of [B]“=”[/B] onto my page.

I find regular expressions a confusing syntax – could anyone let me know what I have done wrong.

What would be nice:
– Tell me what is wrong with my reg ex today why does it not print the contents of the url [b]after[/b] the [B]“=”[/B] and not just the “=”
I have also failed in an alternative pattern, it prints everything?!?! I assumed the following tells the server to… find a word before a “=” give me what “=” is suffixed with

[code=php]$urlArr2 = preg_match(“/[?=w=]+/”,$urlEl,$match);[/code]

[code=php]
<?php
function splitURL($url)
{
$pageURL = urldecode($url);
$pageURL = parse_url($pageURL,PHP_URL_PATH);
$urlArr = preg_split(“/[&]+/”,$pageURL,null);
foreach($urlArr as $urlEl)
{
$urlArr2 = preg_match(“/[?==]+/”,$urlEl,$match);
foreach($match as $urlEl1)
{
echo “<h5>$urlEl1</h5>nt”;
}
}
return $pageURL;
}
splitURL($_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’]);
[/code]

Many thanks

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