how to call on username from a URL?

kane2006

Could anyone help me implement some code to extract information from a url to integrate into a portal page?

For example if the url is as follows :-

www.websitenname.com/portal.php?aff=test

how does one integrate "test" or what ever the username is into a standard portal where a line would look as follows:-

www.websitename.com/cgi-bin/smartsearch.cgi?username=<<username>>&keywords=cars

in essence how do i get the username from the url to substitute the <<username>> variable? is there a GET code i can call upon and if so how would the syntax go? any help would be appreciated, thanks!

bpat1434

Perhaps some .htaccess mod_rewrite fun...

Are you saying that you want to have the URL be updated and the user be redirected automatically? If so:

<?php
// Set a default user "default" if aff isn't sent through the URL
$user = (isset($_GET['aff']))?$_GET['aff']:'default';
$url = 'http://www.websitename.com/cgi-bin/smartsearch.cgi?username='.$user.'&keywords=cars';
header('Location: '.$url);
?>

~Brett

Dobakat

I understood it difrently.. you want to get info from that url...
$members = file_get_contents('www.websitenname.com/portal.php?aff=test');

bpat1434

Except that doesn't answer the question... If they are thinking that, it should be:

<?php
$user = $_GET['aff'];

$members = file_get_contents('http://www.websitename.com/cgi-bin/smartsearch.cgi?username='.$user.'&keywords=cars');
?>

And of course, modify the URL and $_GET variables if the other way is needed....

~Brett

kane2006

Thanks Bret & Dobakat for your help!

I have script with two files named index.php & config.php, the contents of which are below

index.php
<?php

include("config/config.inc.php");

$page = rand(1, $total_pages);

include("pages/portal$page.php");

config.inc.php
<?php

//#-->This variable contains the amount of pages located in the /pages/ folder
//#-->DO NOT FORGET TO ADJUST THIS WHEN ADDING PAGES OR SCRIPT WILL NOT WORK!!!

$total_pages=2;
?>

Basically these scripts is for a website portal revolver. I've put numerous search engine codes within each portal file. My problem however is how do I get my affliates to all use this same portal? I've tried implenting those two options, however I keep getting parse errors. Any assistance on what needs to be added and where, would be appreciated. Thanks

bpat1434

What are the parse errors?

~Brett

kane2006

the following parse error was displayed when i added the code recommended into the config file and executed it server side

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in
/home/content/a/s/s/assist/html/rotatortest/config/config.inc.php
on line 10

bradgrafelman

Can you repost the script after you added in that code and got that parse error?

kane2006

i wasnt sure as to where the code should go so i put it into the config.php after the $total_pages=2 string

the error was a result of that addition, it works fine otherwise

thanks

bradgrafelman

Ok, but can you copy and paste the contents of config.php so we can see the entire source? Maybe there's a typo, missing semicolon, etc. that you're not catching.

kane2006

sure the file looks like this, thanks

<?php

//#-->This variable contains the amount of pages located in the /pages/ folder
//#-->DO NOT FORGET TO ADJUST THIS WHEN ADDING PAGES OR SCRIPT WILL NOT WORK!!!

$total_pages=2;
<?php
$user = $_GET['aff'];

$members = file_get_contents('http://www.websitename.com/cgi-bin/smartsearch.cgi?username='.$user.'&keywords=cars');
?>

should the paste have been made in index.php instead?

bpat1434

Remove the erroneous "<?php" and "?>" tags....

~Brett

bradgrafelman

^ What he said.

bpat only included them in his code snippet to show that they are PHP code, not to say that you must surround that snippet in the tags.

You only use "<?PHP ... ?>" tags to surround PHP code so that the server knows what to execute. Since you placed this code snippet inside other PHP code (which was already surrounded by the PHP tags), there was no need to add the tags.

kane2006

there are no errors reported now, however my syntax in the portal code still reads username and is not substitued by anything. Can i pm one of you on yahoo to give you the actual website and exmaple of sites where it's actually implemented as it's hard to elucidate on here

thanks

bpat1434

sure....