Re: $_GET String Edit

--- "Jed R. Brubaker" <jedbrubaker@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to make a page navigation menu (we have all seen them, > "Page: 1 2 3..."), and I would like to continue doing this via the > URL variables. Right now, each of the page numbers is a hyper link > is set like this: > > "page.php?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]."&more variables here." > > The problem, however, is that those variables are a string. If the > variables that the menu defines are already in the string, it > doesn't update them, it just adds more definitions to the URL. I had a hard time interpreting your question, but I think you're saying that you are generating URLs like this: /page.php?foo1=bar1&foo2=bar2&foo1=bar3&foo2=bar4 And, you're wanting to not duplicate variables in your URL, correct? You could always keep your query string in an array or something. This would allow you to update values in the array prior to the end of your script. You can start this array using $_GET: $query = $_GET; Of course, you might want to rather filter this data on each page, so that you don't spread tainted data more than necessary. Regardless, this will allow you to update values in your query string. If you want to update foo1, you don't have to care whether it's already set: $query['foo1'] = 'newvalue'; Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security Handbook Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook http://httphandbook.org/ RAMP Training Courses http://www.nyphp.org/ramp