<?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>"; 

?>

<?php
// PHP 5 how to pass data as a query string
/*
http_build_query is a function in PHP 5 that enables you to URL encode the query string. You can pass an array or an array of array to this function. The default separator is "&"
*/

$data = array("first_name" => "Robert",
                "last_name" => "Brown",
                "address" => "123 Adam St., New York"
            );

// URI formatted with character encoding
$pass_string = "http://localhost/demo.php?".http_build_query($data, '');

echo "<h2>Query URI (using http_build_query)</h2><br />";
echo $pass_string;            
?>