PHP vs Django argument separators

I've been re-writing a Django server in PHP (I have plenty of reasons to do this), and have run into a problem with arguments via e.g. $_REQUEST.

Django expects arguments to be formatted as: id=822;date_accepted=2011-03-30 17:33:41; (this is what the clients use, so this is what I want to use). However, PHP expects arguments to be formatted as: id=822&date_accepted=2011-03-30 17:33:41;.

So, when I read $_REQUEST in PHP, it comes o开发者_运维百科ut as: "id" => "822;date_accepted=2011-03-30 17:33:41;", rather than: "id" => "822", "date_accepted" => "2011-03-30 17:33:41".

Is there anyway to get the arguments separated correctly?

Can you try adding this to your .htaccess file?

php_value arg_separator.input ";"

replace ; with & and run it through parse_str

$str = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];//id=822;date_accepted=2011-03-30 17:33:41;
parse_str( str_replace( ';', '&', $str ), $_GET );
print_r($_GET);