username and ? questions

[DXL]

what is up with the stuff like the above?:
newthread.php?s=&action=newthread&forumid=10

how do u make it display that, and what does it mean?

also, in search engines...

how do u do that, and what does it mean!?

[richblend]

its just a way of sending information from one page to the next. its called the GET method.

[LordShryku]

You see above where it says &threadid=10267926? In the script, it is doing a SQL query against a database where the thread id = $_GET['threadid']. like he said, just a way of passing information to another page.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php#reserved.variables.get

[batman]

Its passing variables from page to page. In this case it so happens to be the $GET method, "as mentioned above", instead of the $POST method. Both ways pass variables, its just that $GET passes them in the URL itself, whereas $POST passes them hiddenly. This is a nice way to set up a site where all the pages are "built into one". As far as using it, you would use it just like a regular variable, but would call it using

$_GET['variable'];

I am not sure what you mean by using this in a search engine.

Hope that helps,

[DXL]

thanx alot!

that really clarifies alot