http://www.sth.com/index.php?foo=1&bar=2
thats the way parameters are passed to your php-script ( "user-input" )
the url above means:
on www.sth.com theres a script called index.php
the script index.php handles 2 variables as input: foo ( value=1 ) and bar ( value = 2 )
if you want to do sth with the userinput, then you should add
print_r ( $_REQUEST );
to your script, to see whats the being passed as an argument ...