php URL information

dreams4000

Hey all, a quick, maybe easy question. I have a program that runs its files in a url by stating something like:

"http://www.myurl.com/myprogram/main.php?menuAction=htmlMyDCL.show"

I have been integrating a second program into this first program and it wants to add information to a url in a similar manner, for example adding on:

"?id=6&DPN_row_num=0"

to the end of the other url so that it can access certain rows in the database. Is there some way to get these two urls to work together? (have them all in one long url?) I have tried stuff like:

"http://www.myurl.com/myprogram/main.php?menuAction=htmlMyDCL.show?id=6&DPN_row_num=0"

"http://www.myurl.com/myprogram/main.php?menuAction=htmlMyDCL.show&id=6&DPN_row_num=0"

but the & or ? doesnt seem to work for adding the extra info on, at best it just reshows the same page. Any ideas?

dalecosp

UTSL!!

Is this something you wrote?

dreams4000

No, neither of these programs im working with are ones I wrote. however I cant seem to get the devs of either to write back about this info so I was hopping someone here would have some ideas of how to have a url listed where both of those items would work.

dalecosp

Well, a starter idea would be to grab the query string and blow it up with explode(), maybe ...

dreams4000

Is that going to work using this at two diff times? The first url setup is what you login with and browse around with. The second, is the addition that gets tacked on when you try to edit a news posting. Do I just need to explode the second item somehow? Thanks for your advice.

tomcurcuruto

I have a question pertaining to a similar topic as your's. I am trying to grab the URL from each paged viewed on my site. Instead of pasting the same code in each file, I was hoping to put it in the template code that writes the banner for each page. I've tried many of the global variables and it only returns the URL/path of the template file. For example:

if the URL is http://domain.com/index.php
and the template file is here: http://domain.com/template.php
the result I get is http://domain.com/template.php

Is there anyway to get around this?
I was also considering just setting a $path variable in the first line of every page... but I was having a hard time passing the value to the template.php (where the variable would be used to execute a function).

paul088

I probably missed the point here but it is a very simple question. First of all, do you know what the url mean?

?menuAction=htmlMyDCL.show means that the url is calling a function through a switch "menuAction" with a case name "htmlMyDCL.show". This function, judging by the case name, shows some information.

To append "&id=6&DPN_row_num=0" to the existing url, you need to revise the function to include variables such as id, and DPN_row_num and use these variables to retrieve data from your database. You also need to change the switch accordingly.

dreams4000

Thanks Paul, yeah I know pretty much what each of the various url bits is working with, the main problem is just getting the two to work together. Ill try messing with the main url function and see what i can pull out of it. My main concern is that these are two diff programs. I dont need the id and dpn info on every link in the program, just two or three specific pages for the news item. hopefully it is possible to only have those items show up when they are needed for those particular files.

dalecosp

Originally posted by tomcurcuruto
I have a question pertaining to a similar topic as your's. I am trying to grab the URL from each paged viewed on my site. Instead of pasting the same code in each file, I was hoping to put it in the template code that writes the banner for each page. I've tried many of the global variables and it only returns the URL/path of the template file. For example:

if the URL is http://domain.com/index.php
and the template file is here: http://domain.com/template.php
the result I get is http://domain.com/template.php

Is there anyway to get around this?
I was also considering just setting a $path variable in the first line of every page... but I was having a hard time passing the value to the template.php (where the variable would be used to execute a function).

How are you getting this information ... it's amazing that people want answers to questions but expect others to read their minds when it comes to how they're accomplishing various programming feats. 😉 Post your code!!

In regard to this specific statement, have you tried using $SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead of $SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?? What results did you get in this instance?

dreams4000

Well I have fiddled with some stuff but not much luck.. I dont really need to know the code to make the urls come up.. really what I am concerned with is what needes to be in between the two url items.. right now the first one has the ? in it to attach some stuff and I have seen & used in places before.. but I have tried both of those and it simply pops up the same page as if nothing was entered at all. Any ideas on what attachments can be made to get it to work? Thanks!

laserlight

Basically, you are working with query strings.
Normally (though I believe you can change it, to screw up other people's scripts 😛),
'?', a question mark, denotes the start of the query string.
'&', an ampersand, separates the name/value pairs.
A name/value pair is of the form:
name=value
Especially since the values themselves can contain ampersands (etc), one would normally urlencode them using [man]rawurlencode/man or [man]urlencode/man.
Also, the ampersands might be displayed in html as  , to avoid possible confusion with other special characters, though they will of course be converted to te ampersand character.

To access the name/value pairs, one uses the $GET array.
For example, $GET['name'] could contain the string "value".