Getting started

[Anon]

I'm just starting to learn PHP, and I took a browse at the menu in the manual here. It's looked easy to learn, but all the names through me off. I've seen many websites use a form of PHP where the URL bar in the browser wiil read something like
http://www.domain.com/samplepage.php?s=&section=30&pageid=3

This is commonly used, from what I have seen, to organize site updates, and similar things in an archive. What is this method or system called? I need to no the name in order to research it. I don't want programming help, just the name. Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

It's commonly called "urlencoded variables," and is used by the HTTP GET mechanism.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.2.1

[Anon]

Thanks 🙂
And so the hunt begins...

[Anon]

I was wondering the same thing, but i had another question: Wich program is commonly used to achieve this on a website?