LINUX, PHP | PHP: Parse URL encoded GET data

<?php
// To build back the URI and to extract the passed parameters, you can use parse_url, parse_string function 
$extract_string = parse_url($pass_string);
echo "<h2>Extracted URI (using parse_url)</h2><br />";
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($extract_string);
echo "</pre>";

// To decode the query string use parse_str function 
parse_str($extract_string["query"], $extract_query);
echo "<h2>Extracted Query String (using parse_str)</h2><br />";
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($extract_query);
echo "</pre>"; 

?>