including query strings

[Anon]

Hi, i'm running PHP 4 on Win 2000 IIS 5 server and am somewhat new to PHP. What I can't figure out is why I can include files but not query strings to files.. Ex:

working..when i try to
include("test.php");

error..when i try to
include("test.php?blah=1");

The error reported is:

Warning: Failed opening 'test.php?blah=1' for inclusion (include_path='.') in C:\Inetpub\website\test2.php on line 2

I've tried editing the include path in php.ini, which was originally commented... but nothing works.. any help?

Thanks

[Anon]

You can't do that because the query string is something that's part of the HTTP protocol. When you include a file, you're using the file system - nothing to do with HTTP. Therefore you can't use query strings.

Diego

[Anon]

Because the thing in the include() is a filename, not a URL. Big difference.

If you want $blah to have the value 1 in test.php, just do the obvious thing and go:

$blah=1;
include('test.php');