[Tutor] urlparse question

[Jaco.Smuts@za.didata.com]

Hello there

I am busy writing a small app to extract keywords (amongst other things)
from search engine referer urls stored in a mysql database (using apache
mod_log_sql).

1 - Please tell me if I'm re-inventing the wheel.
2 - If not , what I'm struggling with is to get the differnet url
querystring parameters, what am I missing ?

example:
the url is
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=south+africa+trav
el+cape+town

using urlparse I can get

urlValue[0] = 'http'
urlValue[1] = 'www.google.com'
urlValue[2] = '/search'
urlValue[3] = ''
urlValue[4] = 'hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=south+africa+travel+cape+town'
urlValue[5] = ''

What I'm looking for is a way (using a library, not regex if possible) to
parse out of urlValue[4]
hl='en'
lr=''
ie='UTF-8&oe=utf-8'
q='south+africa+travel+cape+town'

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance
Jaco Smuts




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