[Resolved] Detecting passed variable settings.

[alexboyer]

Ok,

I've made a page that should be able to load different movies depending on the variable assignments passed to it with a hyperlink from a different page.

Here's the test url code for the page sending the link:

<a href="movie/movieloader.php?$mov=hpi2">hpi2 movie</a>

And here's the code for the loaded page:

embed src="<? echo $mov ?>.mov" width="480" height="360" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime"></embed>

I'm trying to get the $mov to change depending on what the variable is when clicked from the previous page. So I guess my question is, how do I get the loaded page to detect the variables referenced in the url and assign them to the page accordingly.

I've seen examples where the url is:

whatever.php?number=10

and the page loaded will show 10

and just by changing the url to a different number

whatever.php?number=20

the page loaded will be 20

Any help would be great.

Thanks

[sidney]

the link should look like below no $

<a href="movie/movieloader.php?mov=hpi2">hpi2 movie</a>

and you need to use $_GET['mov'] to grab the var passed in the url as below

embed src="<? echo $_GET['mov'] ?>.mov" width="480" height="360" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime"></embed>

[alexboyer]

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whew

It worked 😃

[sidney]

no problem any time and welcome to the forum