Deserializing jQuery-Serialized Forms in PHP

When utilizing jQuery's $('#form').serialize() method to submit form data to a PHP page, the question arises: how do we deserialize it in PHP?

PHP Unserialization of jQuery Serialized Forms

PHP's parse_str() function provides an effective solution for unserializing string data typically received from jQuery serialization.

To illustrate, consider a serialized string received by PHP:

"param1=someVal&param2=someOtherVal"

Using parse_str() to process this string:

$params = array();
parse_str($_GET, $params);

will populate the $params array with the expected key-value pairs:

array(
    'param1' => 'someVal',
    'param2' => 'someOtherVal'
)

This approach also supports HTML arrays.

For further information, refer to the PHP documentation on parse_str():

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-str.php