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Decodes a string ($data) encoded with base64_encode().

Encodes the given $data with base64.

This encoding is designed to make binary data survive transport through transport layers that are not 8-bit clean, such as mail bodies.

With base64_encode() encoded data takes about 33% more space than the original data.

Fetch DNS Resource Records associated with the given $hostname.

With this function the current Google Pagerank can be checked.

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Generates a URL-encoded query string from the associative (or indexed) array provided.

Decode an IDNA encoded string.

Encode a string with the IDNA punycode.

This function parses a URL and returns an associative array containing any of the various components of the URL that are present.

• scheme - e.g. http
• host
• port
• user
• pass
• path
• query - after the question mark ?
• fragment - after the hashmark #

This function is not meant to validate the given URL, it only breaks it up into the above listed parts. Partial URLs are also accepted, parse_url() tries its best to parse them correctly.

Returns a string in which the sequences with percent (%) signs followed by two hex digits have been replaced with literal characters.

Encodes the given string according to « RFC 1738 ».

Decodes any %## encoding in the given string $str. The string could be encoded with the function urlencode().

This function is convenient when encoding a string to be used in a query part of a URL, as a convenient way to pass variables to the next page.