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Description

Build a query from a array (reverse of the PHP parse_str())

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Syntax

buildQuery($params, $akey=null)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$params
$akey	null

Returns

string The resulting query string

Defined in

libraries/joomla/environment/uri.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.environment.uri' );

Source Body

function buildQuery ($params, $akey = null)
{
        if ( !is_array($params) || count($params) == 0 ) {
                return false;
        }

        $out = array();

        //reset in case we are looping
        if( !isset($akey) && !count($out) )  {
                unset($out);
                $out = array();
        }

        foreach ( $params as $key => $val )
        {
                if ( is_array($val) ) {
                        $out[] = JURI::buildQuery($val,$key);
                        continue;
                }

                $thekey = ( !$akey ) ? $key : $akey.'['.$key.']';
                $out[] = $thekey."=".urlencode($val);
        }

        return implode("&",$out);
}

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