Re: var question

You can also look at environment variable $QUERY_STRING. For example,

        if ($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'] == 'login') {
                ...do log in procedure

If register_globals is on, all you need is

        if ($QUERY_STRING == 'login')

If you might be passing other parameters in the URL, and want to ignore case, you could use something like:

        if (eregi('login', $QUERY_STRING)) {

This would match

        www.blah.com?login
        www.blah.com?LogIn
        www.blah.com?login&user=herman_hollerith

but it would also match

        www.blah.com?sloginthemud
        www.blah.com?login0

So, a little regular expression twiddling might be in order. For more info, see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.regex.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

        -steve

At 02:43 PM 4/16/01 , Plutarck wrote:

Add an "=" on the end of your url. Viola. -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""Jeroen Geusebroek"" <Jeroen.Geusebroek@intellit.nl> wrote in message news:NCBBJKHJIKHIFECNNOAMCENKECAA.Jeroen.Geusebroek@intellit.nl... Hi Guys, I have a question about the way PHP handles var/strings. Let's say i have this URL: http://foo.bar.com/?login. And in my script i have this code: if($login) { echo "blab"; } or if(isset($login)) { echo "blab"; } It always returns FALSE. I think that is because the string is empty. Shouldn't PHP, even if a var is empty, put it in his var-list? Is there another way to do what i want? Thanks, Jeroen Geusebroek

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