Re: reading a URL...

In article <85256A1B.00507A29.00@Notes_SMTP.risk.sungard.com>, Tristan.Pretty@risk.sungard.com wrote: > Is it Possible, in PHP to read a URL? > > What I am trying to do is this... > I have many news stories in a database, and a single static news page, that > calls the story, and the corresponding headline. > I have looked about on-line, and seen a common URL,... > > http://www.arandomsite.com/news_story.php?id=123 > > I have adopted this method, and it only displays the top most story in my > database, no matter what news ID I use. > > Can I get the ID number from the URL?, and then pass that to the SQL > statement? Yes to both, and quite easily. All the variables passed in a GET request (which is what the url is) will automatically be made available in the $HTTP_GET_VARS associative array. So variable "id" is at $HTTP_GET_VARS['id']. In addition, if the configuration setting "register_globals" is turned on, the variable will also be accessible simply as $id. So in the script news_story.php, you could write a query string like, for example: "SELECT article_text from story_table where id=$id" or "SELECT article_text from story_table where id=" . $HTTP_GET_VARS['id'] See <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php> -- CC