Change single variable value in querystring [closed]

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I am given a page url like 'http://abc.com/test.php?a=1&b=2&c=3'. Now I have been told to change the value of b to 5 so that it becomes 'http://abc.com/test.php?a=1&b=5&c=3'.

i.e change from http://abc.com/test.php?a=1&b=2&c=3 to http://abc.com/test.php?a=1&b=5&c=3

Note: variable b here can refer to any name.

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Use

• parse_url() to extract the query string from the URL

• parse_str() to split the query string into an array

• array_merge() to add a new array "b" => 5

• http_build_query() to re-build a query string

• The remaining parts from the first step (protocol, host, path...) to re-build the full URL or - if you have the HTTP pecl extension - a http_build_url() with HTTP_URL_JOIN_QUERY will alleviate much of the work.