.../whatever.php?=somthing

[acid_suicide]

.../whatever.php?=somthing

I know it has to do with variables, but being new to php, I know not how to do the above. Anything reguarding procedure / syntax would be appreciated

thanks

[philipolson]

I think you mean whatever.php?something as people sometimes do this (not sure why...) but anyway just do the following in whatever.php

echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

[Black_Hobbit]

Alot of times people use it to pass a var. Like

if($page==about) {


echo"You are looking at our $page page."
echo"My Email is [email][e-mail][/email] Please do not spam me";

}

else if($page==main) {

Hi. 
You are on our $page page. <a href=\"$PHP_SELF?page=about\">click here</a> to view the about page.

} 

[philipolson]

I may have misread, I thought you wanted ?foo instead of the standard ?foo=bar method. If you aren't wanting ?foo specifically then it's easy. Read this manual page:

http://www.php.net/variables.external

Note that the stuff in the URL is method GET (the stuff after the ? is also known as the QUERY_STRING) so in our ?foo=bar example you would simply do echo $_GET['bar'] If you mean something else I'm sure someone will help you.

[alancd]

<?php

if($page==about) {

echo"You are looking at our $page page.";
echo"My Email is [e-mail] Please do not spam me";

}

else if($page==main) {

Hi.
You are on our $page page. <a href="$PHP_SELF?page=about/">click here</a> to view the about page. ;

}

?>

This is what Im looking for, but I get a parse error on line 14.
However I am not skilled enough to check syntax ect. Help please

[coppercoins]

What you are talking about is a simple method of appending a variable onto a URL, usually used in links.

whatever.php?myvar=5&yourvar=7

would pass the values:

$myvar = 5;
$yourvar = 7;

to the page "whatever.php".

It's about that simple.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by coppercoins
What you are talking about is a simple method of appending a variable onto a URL, usually used in links.

whatever.php?myvar=5&yourvar=7

would pass the values:

$myvar = 5;
$yourvar = 7;

to the page "whatever.php".

It's about that simple.

Not quite; these days it's considered more appropriate to use the variables $GET['myvar'] and $GET['yourvar'], since (in any decently secured system) $myvar and $yourvar will not be set.

[alancd]

i need a book

[laserlight]

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