build_query( array $data ): string

Builds a URL query based on an associative or indexed array.

Description

This is a convenient function for easily building URL queries.
It sets the separator to ‘&’ and uses the _http_build_query() function.

Unlike PHP’s native http_build_query(), this function does NOT URL-encode the keys or values. Callers are responsible for encoding values beforehand with urlencode() or rawurlencode(), or late-escaping the output with esc_url() before use.

Parameters

$dataarrayrequired: Array of key/value pairs to build the query from.

Return

string Query string, without URL encoding applied.

Source

function build_query( $data ) {
	return _http_build_query( $data, null, '&', '', false );
}

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Uses	Description
_http_build_query()`wp-includes/functions.php`	From php.net (modified by Mark Jaquith to behave like the native PHP5 function).

Used by	Description
WP_REST_Pattern_Directory_Controller::get_items()`wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-pattern-directory-controller.php`	Search and retrieve block patterns metadata
add_query_arg()`wp-includes/functions.php`	Retrieves a modified URL query string.
create_initial_post_types()`wp-includes/post.php`	Creates the initial post types when ‘init’ action is fired.

Changelog

Version	Description
2.3.0	Introduced.

User Contributed Notes

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Andy Schmidt 7 years ago

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It’s not clearly spelled out that this function will call _http_build_query() with urlencode = FALSE. So it is assumed that you had previously urlencoded each individual key and value of your input array!

Crucially:
```
$myarray = array( 'p%s/n#q?a*e!s p+' =>  'percent%slash/number#question?asterisk*exclamate!space plus+end' );
build_query( $myarray );
```
will output:
p%s/n#q?a*e!s p+=percent%slash/number#question?asterisk*exclamate!space plus+end

If you have an array with ‘raw’ data, you should use the native PHP function instead:
```
$myarray = array( 'p%s/n#q?a*e!s p+' =>  'percent%slash/number#question?asterisk*exclamate!space plus+end' );
http_build_query( $myarray );
```
will output the proper/usable:
p%25s%2Fn%23q%3Fa%2Ae%21s+p%2B=percent%25slash%2Fnumber%23question%3Fasterisk%2Aexclamate%21space+plus%2Bend
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build_query( array $data ): string

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