Mark Hensler — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:00:14 +0000

The most popular reason for doing this is so that it's more search engine friendly. (Some engines dislike question marks)

The best option, IMO, is to use .htaccess. You'll use mod_rewrite to find any REQUEST_URI that contain your filename as a directory, then re-write the path to your script with a properly formated querystring.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/1.php
http://soysal.com/article.php?sid=5
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/webdev/2001-March/001216.html
http://www.evolt.org/article/Making_clean_URLs_with_Apache_and_PHP/18/22880/?format=print

Busy — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 04:48:01 +0000

if you do it like blah.zz/name.php?variable=something you can just print or echo the variable name echo $variable; and you should get 'something' on the screen.
the other way is using explode, I've only used it to get the domain section like so: $url = explode("/", $HTTP_REFERER); and it will give you what is before the /
hopefully the experts can explain or use it in a better way

necrotic — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:43:19 +0000

Just something else to add to my 'vast amounts of knowledge':)

Renegade — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:17:47 +0000

y would u want to do that?