PHP QueryStrings

[Krus1972]

My index.php homepage has several links on it that when each link is clicked the link sends the following URL / querystring to my index.php page in the following formats:

link 1:

http://www.mywebsite.com/information_is_here/

link 2:

http://www.mywebsite.com/different_info_is_here/

There is not a seperate directory for the server to switch to for each of the. The index.php page is requesting the information found between the "/" and processing it accordingly. This is all fine.

I am trying to figure out where the script determines if there is information between "/" in the URL or QueryString as shown in the above examples.

Can someone provide me with a short IF THEN PHP script that will demonstrate how to determine if information is
presenet between the "/" as it is in my script?

Thanks so much

 

[jpadie]

there are no query strings in the samples that you have provided.

parse_url would appear to be your friend.

http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/function.parse-url.php

 

[vacunita]

To do it that way, your web server would have be be set up to perform url mod rewrites to send a url like that to a specific web page, and then have the PHP script get the URL, and parse out the information it needs.

Other than to have nicer looking urls I see no real practicality in doing it this way.

Once the PHP script gets hold of the URL there are different methods that can be used to get the information out of the url: Regular Expressions, substrings, even exploding the url into an array.

for example:

$pieces=explode("\",$url);

if($pieces[4]=="some information I'm looking for"){
do something.
}

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[Krus1972]

My Server does not like the syntex:

$pieces=explode("\",$url);

Any other ideas?

 

[jpadie]

any other ideas?

read my post?

 

[Krus1972]

The Parse_Url isn't in the script either .

 

[vacunita]

My Server does not like the syntex:

$pieces=explode("\",$url);

What doesn't it like does it spit out an error? What does it say?

Obviously the $url variable in my example isn't populated by itself. How are you getting the URL into a variable?

Or what exactly is it that you want? What do you mean it isn't in the script?






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