grabbing urls

Hi all,

user lands on page with info from url. ie: /page.php3?123456

How do I retrieve the value and place in a variable? ie: $reffString = '123456';

I saw a reference to this somewhere and can't find it again...

TIA,
Jay

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you want the url to read:

/page.php3?var=123456?

$var would then be equal to "123456"



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Lanny
dtm

Ahem. I am feeling a little silly here... Yes, immortal, you are certainly correct

What about storing the url? I was intending to grab the whole thing and split it at the '?'. This is an environmental var, no?

Jay

I may be wrong but don't you define it by "$variable_here=getenv("HTTP_REFERER")"

Thanks Joshua, that's the ticket. As a phph newbie, I am again impressed at how straightforward the usage is.

Jay

I think you're making it a little more complicated than it is... consider the url
www.myurl.com/test.php3?test=1234

When that page is requested, php can immediately use the variable $test. Try it. Create a page called test.php3 with the following code:

<? echo $test?>

Then type in the url and hit enter. You'll see the value of the url parameter "test" print out... so you should see 1234

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Ulysses J Ludwig
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Ujludwig@yahoo.com
213.948.8278

Thanks very much to all. Ulysses, you are definitely correct - I was over complicating things.

What joy to see how staightforward php is

Thanks to all.

Jay

I think the variable you are looking for is $QUERY_STRING. For the url test.php3?showthis the system variable $QUERY_STRING will bring up 'showthis'. By this you don't have to assign an extra variable.

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Mike Schaefer www.twst.com

[This message has been edited by Mike Schaefer (edited June 28, 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Mike Schaefer (edited June 28, 2000).]