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<?php
/**
 * Parses the string into variables without the max_input_vars limitation.
 *
 * https://github.com/reduxframework/redux-framework/issues/2631#issue-108373168
 * 
 * @since   1.0
 * @access  public
 * @param   string $string
 * @return  array $result
 */
function redux_parse_str( $string ) {

    if ( '' == $string ) {
        return false;
    }

    $result = array();
    $pairs = explode( '&', urldecode( $string ) );

    foreach ( $pairs as $key => $pair ) {

        // use the original parse_str() on each element
        parse_str( $pair, $params );

        $k=key( $params );

        if( ! isset( $result[$k] ) ) {
            $result+=$params;
        } else {
            $result[$k] = redux_array_merge_recursive_distinct( $result[$k], $params[$k] );
        }
    }

    return $result;
}

/**
 * Merge arrays without converting values with duplicate keys to arrays as array_merge_recursive does.
 *
 * As seen here http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-merge-recursive.php#92195
 *
 * @since   1.0
 * @access  public
 * @param   array $array1
 * @param   array $array2
 * @return  array $merged
 */
function redux_array_merge_recursive_distinct( array $array1, array $array2 ) {
    $merged = $array1;
    foreach ( $array2 as $key => $value ) {
        if ( is_array( $value ) && isset( $merged[$key] ) && is_array( $merged[$key] ) ) {
            $merged[$key] = redux_array_merge_recursive_distinct ( $merged[$key], $value );
        } else {
            $merged[$key] = $value;
        }
    }

    return $merged;
}