Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to work out how to pass a variable from the url into the page content.

For example, if I type in http://www.mydomain.com/?id=apples then I can have the word "apples" anywhere on my page.

Is there some simple code I put into my index.php page to make this happen?

I'm new to this so sorry if I get the terminology wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Shola

All the variables in the URL become available in an array called $_GET (since they are sometimes called 'get' variables). So in your index.php, you can write:

PHP Code:

<div>
HTML code here<br />
The value of the id variable was <?php echo $_GET['id']; ?> <br />
More HTML code here...
</div>

Then when you view the page, that little section of PHP code will be replaced with the contents of the id variable from the URL.

shola they answerd your reply

Originally Posted by Uche

shola they answerd your reply

what kind of a post is that,
also be careful when echoing user input or at least echo it within <xmp> </xmp> tags

The good ol' days. I remember when I first started coding in PHP, (cough cough in 99'). Back then there weren't as many web development forums. IRC and phpbuilder was my main source of learning and those expensive books.

Forums make it lot easier to learn. Most of the time people are really friendly and helpful.

Good luck with learning the language, it's a fun language to code in!

Originally Posted by mrpaul

what kind of a post is that,

I think he was just bumping the thread so Shola wouldn't miss it....

Originally Posted by nwelsh

The good ol' days. I remember when I first started coding in PHP, (cough cough in 99'). Back then there weren't as many web development forums. IRC and phpbuilder was my main source of learning and those expensive books.

Forums make it lot easier to learn. Most of the time people are really friendly and helpful.

Good luck with learning the language, it's a fun language to code in!

Nothing wrong with phpbuilder