Links in PHP

Anon

I am new to PHP. I have seen various sites using PHP. When ever I click on some links, the link connected to it is something like this :

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/post.php3?num=2

http://www.delphinews.f2s.com/go.php3?to=521

What does the above links exactly mean and how can we PHP users use it on our sites.

Best Regards,

Jayan Chandrasekhar,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
www.delphitoday.f2s.com

Anon

The URL structures above allow the passing of variables and values from one page to another without having to use cookies or sessions or the like. The items after the ? are simply variable and value pairs and multiple pairs can be separated by an & such as,

http://yoursite.com/page.phtml?var1=val1&var2=val2

if you were to echo the variables $var1 and $var2 using PHP in the page.phtml file, you would get... well, try it and see what happens 😉

These links aren't special to PHP, and can be used for other scripting languages as well, such as cgi/perl/etc.

Hope that helps 🙂

Tim Frank

Anon

Thank You Tim,

Is there any other forum, where we can replies so fast !!! It was really fast. It really is a great feeling to feel that you are not alone. Thanks a Lot !!!

I tried out what you suggested and it works wonderfully. Still once again the same question; what must the link down must be really doing. Actually when clicked, it retieves another site in a new window.

http://www.delphinews.f2s.com/go.php3?to=307

Is that the webmaster must have created a big switch() statement. I have seen that his new articles go on having subsequent numbers.

Regards

Anon

In that example, it appears the Web site has built a database of Web links. When you click on a link "go.php3?to=307" it looks up 307 in the database, retrieves the associated URL, and does a redirect through the header() function:

header("Location: http://some/other/site/");

The site also may be logging your clickout for its own purposes. If you go to a site such as Freshmeat.net, it will display the number of people who visited a link alongside the link title.