Passing Page address w/ Variables

Anon

I'm having a problem trying to pass a page address that has variables in the command line to another page.

ie:

<?php
if(!isset($BBoD))
{
echo "<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='0;URL=login.php?&page=remove_event.php?&edate=$edate'>";
exit();
}
?>

The $edate var comes through as blank in the login page...

Anon

"login.php?&page=remove_event.php?&edate=$edate"

First, remove that first &
Second, remove that second ?
Third, urlencode() both 'remove_even.php' and $edate - to avoid nasty weird non-URL characters from causing grief.

"login.php?page=".urlencode(remove_event.php)."&edate=".urlencode($edate)

To see a properly formatted querystring, look at the URL to this page.

Anon

Thanks! I appreciate it...boy do I have a lot of recoding to do on my other pages 🙂

Anon

There were 2 minor mistakes in what I was told. First being that remove_event wasn't in quotes second that the second '?' was still needed. Also might mention that it is a good idea that before sending someone back to that variable to urldecode() it. Here is the correct way to pass the address and variables:

echo "<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='0;URL=login.php?page=" , urlencode('remove_event.php?') , "edate=", urlencode($edate), "'>";

Anon

You sure about that second '?'?

says that "login.php" gets a single field passed to it called "page" that contains the value "remove_event.php?edate=$edate". If that is what you wanted then I defer - it wasn't apparent that it was.

If that is the case, then

"login.php?page=".urlencode("remove_event.php?edate=$edate" may be a better construct (to urlencode the '=' as well).