getting the "?" part of a HTML call?

Anon

I'm sure I could find this somewhere (I even got the slight idea there is a really simple way to do this) but after an hour of searching I'm tired...

On an HTML page, you can set a link like this:

HREF="dummy.php3?url=hallo.html"

Is there a way to get this "url" part in PHP3?

Anon

http://www.php.net/manual/language.variables.external.php

You're right; it is really simple. PHP converts the name=value pairs in the URL to name=value pairs in the PHP environment. In the process, it "unescapes" any url-encoded data.

So in your example,

<? echo $url ?>

will evaluate to

hallo.html

This also works with POST form input.

Anon

If you are searching for the VALUE of that url part, and you are currectly in dummy.php3, simply use $url.

If you want the string "url=hallo.html", use the substring function. Have a look at this:

$my_url_path = "dummy.php3?url=hallo.html";
$pos = strpos($my_url_path, "?"); // returns 10
$part_after_question_mark = substr($my_url_path, $pos + 1); // returns "url=hallo.html";

I hope this is what you meant.

Anon

Yeah, the "$url§ approach dos it.

I thought I had tried this myself and it didn't work, but when I checked the file with which I tried it, I found that I had some misspelling that corrupted the script...

Thankx for da help.