Getting info from the address bar

CodeX

I am trying to pass a value for the page/section that I am viewing to a hit counter.

I currently navigate the site by using a switch/case statement to include the required additional code for that pages content. So this causes the counter to think I asked for index.php on every call.

So I need a way to get the variable that requested the displayed page.

example:

www.somedomain.com/?control=home
www.somedomain.com/?control=downloads
www.somedomain.com/?control=forum

the hit counter you return index.php for all of the above

I want it to return
index.php?control=home,
or index.php?control=downloads,
or index.php?control=forum

Thnx in advance!

toma42

if you're using apache, use mod_rewrite to redirect all requests to index.php. There are tons of pages on the net that detail how to use mod_rewrite.

If you're not using apache, you should 🙂

Psyche

extract($_GET);

CodeX

what I want is if the URL is something like http://www.somedomain.com?control=forum, or http://www.somedomain.com/index.php?control=forum for the code to get the ?control=forum part and record that in the hit counter too.

So far I just get index.php (the main file - that called (included) the forum, download or whatever page) without the section part

if (!empty ($_GET)) {
	extract ($_GET);
} else if  (!empty($HTTP_GET_VARS)) {
	extract ($HTTP_GET_VARS);
}

if (!empty ($_POST)) {
	extract ($_POST);
} else if (!empty ($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
	extract ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
}

if (!empty ($control) {
	$section = $control;
} else {
	$section = "home";
}

$req_page=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?control=$section";

print "$req_page";       // temp test to check that a value is present

I hope this code helps extend upon what I have explained above.

CodeX

Hi,

Could the fact that the hit counter script is called as an include on a file that is called as an include in the index.php file be a problem at all?

i.e.

index.php
   +---- included [i]section[/i].php file - ex, downloads.php
            +---- included [i]hit_counter[/i].php file