Re: passing variables need help

Hello John- Please consider the following two locations: http://www.php.net/support http://www.php.net/variables.external Regards, Philip Olson On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, John Flanagan wrote: > Lo, > > I am a just starting with PHP and I am in the middle of building a site. What my question is; > > If I pass a variable to a page by www.mysite.com/index.php?page=support how do I grab that > variable and use it in the index.php. > > I want to use the same index.php for the whole site and when I get the variable eg support pass > it in to a variable like "pages/{$page}.php"; to stop any directory transversal attacks. > > I would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to get the variable from the URL. > > > Cheers, > > John F > John.Flanagan@akad.ie > >