Exclude a parameter from REQUEST_URI ?

Anon

Dear all,

I'm trying to make the 'next, prev' script. I got it to work alright, but there's a slight problem.

print "<a href=\"$REQUEST_URI&offset=$newoffset\" class=bluelink>NEXT</a>\n";

when I hit the 'next'button, a offset=1 is added to the URL, and each time the next button is linked, offset=1 just accumulates.. and finally the URL becomes a huge one.. something like:

http://domain.com/script.php?action=1&page=1&offset=1&offset=2&offset=3&offset=4....etc

The page still links to the last offset (I don't know why it doesn't get confused, but it worked..)

So I thought if there's a command that 'excludes' parameters from the REQUEST_URI?

something like this:

$Request_URI = /script.php?action=1&page=1&offset=1

$Excluded_URI = /script.php?action=1&page=1

Thanks for your time.

matto

I once encountered the same problem.
I then used $QUERYSTRING instead of $REQUEST_URI (works a bit different but maybe it's useful to you).

function stripqstring($feld="", $qstring="")
{
$felder = explode("&", $qstring);
$neu = array();

    foreach($felder as $zuweis)
    {
            $zuweise = explode("=", $zuweis);
            if($zuweise[0] != $feld)
                    array_push($neu, $zuweis);
    }

    $ret = implode("&", $neu);

    return $ret;

}

Include this function in your script and do this:
$QUERYSTRING = stripqstring("offset", $QUERYSTRING);

This will remove the "offset" entry from your query string.