Re: How do you read one of these parameters?

or, you could use a 404-errorHandler, and have it parse the URL that caused it couldn't find ;) (that's what I use occasionally) Richard Lynch wrote:

Brian Dunning wrote:

I see URLs formatted like this: http://tinyurl.com/xyz How do you read that "xyz," since there's no "/?x=" preceding it? Is it not a get parameter?

If you can't do mod_rewrite you can use: http://tinyurl.com/index.php/xyz with: <?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];?> I use it all the time, especially to pass parameters to dynamic images and PDFs so that Microsoft Internet Explorer (various versions) can't screw up. BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1 GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf