wp-includes/functions.php:1139Retrieves a modified URL query string.
$argsstringfunction add_query_arg( ...$args ) { if ( is_array( $args[0] ) ) { if ( count( $args ) < 2 || false === $args[1] ) { $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; } else { $uri = $args[1]; } } else { if ( count( $args ) < 3 || false === $args[2] ) { $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; } else { $uri = $args[2]; } } $frag = strstr( $uri, '#' ); if ( $frag ) { $uri = substr( $uri, 0, -strlen( $frag ) ); } else { $frag = ''; } if ( 0 === stripos( $uri, 'http://' ) ) { $protocol = 'http://'; $uri = substr( $uri, 7 ); } elseif ( 0 === stripos( $uri, 'https://' ) ) { $protocol = 'https://'; $uri = substr( $uri, 8 ); } else { $protocol = ''; } if ( str_contains( $uri, '?' ) ) { list( $base, $query ) = explode( '?', $uri, 2 ); $base .= '?'; } elseif ( $protocol || ! str_contains( $uri, '=' ) ) { $base = $uri . '?'; $query = ''; } else { $base = ''; $query = $uri; } wp_parse_str( $query, $qs ); $qs = urlencode_deep( $qs ); // This re-URL-encodes things that were already in the query string. if ( is_array( $args[0] ) ) { foreach ( $args[0] as $k => $v ) { $qs[ $k ] = $v; } } else { $qs[ $args[0] ] = $args[1]; } foreach ( $qs as $k => $v ) { if ( false === $v ) { unset( $qs[ $k ] ); } } $ret = build_query( $qs ); $ret = trim( $ret, '?' ); $ret = preg_replace( '#=(&|$)#', '$1', $ret ); $ret = $protocol . $base . $ret . $frag; $ret = rtrim( $ret, '?' ); $ret = str_replace( '?#', '#', $ret ); return $ret;}Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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