Hi everyone, I am fairly new to php and I am trying to get a redirect page to work and almost have it except I can not seem to include a variabled passed in via the incoming link to the new redirected link in the code. Here is what I have in a file called jump.php. I want to be able to pass in an url like http://mydomain.com/jump.php?id=1&ref=2 and have it redirect to http://linkout.com&ref=2

How do I properly insert the code after ref= to pass in the variable that came in via the incoming url?

PHP Code:

<?php
$id =$_GET['id'];
$ref =$_GET['ref'];
if ($id == "")  {$link = 'http://linkout.com&ref=';}  //Default Blank
if ($id == "1")  {$link = 'http://linkout.com&ref=';} // page 1
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); // Clean 301 header
header("Location: $link"); // Jump to the link
exit();
?>

PHP Code:

$id = ( isset($_GET['id']) ) ? $_GET['id'] : false;
$ref = ( isset($_GET['ref']) ) ? $_GET['ref'] : false;
$link = 'http://linkout.com?';
$q = ( $id && $ref ) ? '&' : '';
if ($id )  { $link .= "id=$id"; }  //Default Blank
if ($ref)  {$link .= "{$q}ref=$ref"; } // page 1
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); // Clean 301 header
header("Location: $link"); // Jump to the link
exit();