https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1017586 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-side-scripting/php-help-0#comment-1102725 <p>Everything after the question mark (?) is called the querystring. That is the GET method of passing information to a page. The destination page (newthread.php above) can parse the querystring for the data, and create pairs of variables and values.</p> <p>A very basic example:<br /> <div class="codeblock"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br />example</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">com</span><span style="color: #007700">/</span><span style="color: #0000BB">index</span><span style="color: #007700">.</span><span style="color: #0000BB">php</span><span style="color: #007700">?</span><span style="color: #0000BB">this</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #0000BB">that<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$this</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">Output</span><span style="color: #007700">:<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">that<br />?&gt;</span></span></code></div></p> Thu, 21 Feb 2002 23:30:45 +0000 Mark Hensler comment 1102725 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net