RE: [PHP] Database search logic question

See inline: --- "Chris W. Parker" <cparker@swatgear.com> wrote: > Stuart Felenstein <mailto:stuart4m@yahoo.com> > on Monday, November 15, 2004 1:10 AM said: > > > The way I was approaching this was to grab the > url, > > the part after the ? , so not the referer. > > This sounds like you're not familiar with the $_GET > array. $_GET is > everything after the ? in the url but as an array. It sounds like you answered before you either read or understood. I was talking about $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; > This sounds like you're not familiar with the $_POST > array. $_POST is > everything that *would be* after the ? in the url > but as an array. In $_POST there is nothing in the URL , there is no ?. > > I'm wondering at this point if I should > > create a way to let users save their search > > parameters, by grabbing the variables and storing > them > > as an array in the database or go back to the URL > > method. > > I don't see how these two things are similar. > <shrugs> They are not similar but will accomplish the same goal. > If you want to store your array in a db use > serialize() and > unserialize(). In any case I would just store the > search criteria in a > cookie and leave the db out of it. A ccokie wouldn't help me one bit in this situation. Stuart