WB 2.08.x

    /**

     * Created parse_url utf-8 compatible function

     * 

     * @param string $url The string to decode

     * @return array Associative array containing the different components

     * 

     */

    public function mb_parse_url($url) {

        $encodedUrl = preg_replace('%[^:/?#&=\.]+%usDe', 'urlencode(\'$0\')', $url);

        $components = parse_url($encodedUrl);

        foreach ($components as &$component)

            $component = urldecode($component);

        return $components;

    }