Re: How do you read one of these parameters?

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:28, 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? It means the hosting webserver either does a URL rewrite for the receiver application, or the receiver application parses the URL itself. In either case the developer then assigns the value to a variable of their choice. This is usually a positional approach to URL variables. Meaning you can't arbitrarily re-arrange the order of the variables. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'