Re: Re: a general perl like pares of the query string...

Wow... ok now i get it.. thanks guys Aaron Moore "Michael Kimsal" <michael@tapinternet.com> wrote in message news:3B9A55A4.6020302@tapinternet.com... > Aaron, CC Zona wrote before that: > > > If track_vars is on (always true if version >= 4.0.3), then the global vars > $HTTP_GET_VARS['bob'] and $HTTP_GET_VARS['phil'] are already set. > > And if register_globals is on, then the global vars $bob and $phil are also > already set. > > -------------------------------------- > Taking from your original post - > > file.php?bob=manager&phil=employ > > > If you create a file.php in your server, and hit it with > file.php?bob=manager, > you should just be able to say > > <? echo $bob; ?> > > and you'll get "manager" printed out for you. Most installations of > PHP, by default, > create variables for you from the GET string parameters. There can be a > security concern > if you're not careful to validate the data that you get in from those > GET strings, > but this 'ease of use' (not having to use that Perl stuff from below, or > firing up CGI.pm > every request) is one of the main attractions to PHP for beginning > developers. > > CC Zona also wrote that you can use the $HTTP_GET_VARS array (which would > be the equivalent to the $fields{} array that is created below. One really > nifty thing about PHP that isn't addressed in your Perl snippet below is > arrays - > > file.php?name[]=mike&name[]=dave&name[]=keith > > would give me an array called $name with 3 elements in it. There's most > likely > a Perl module to handle that (does CGI.pm handle that) but it's handled > automatically > in PHP. > > Aaron Moore wrote: > > >Well hers teh perl version of the the parser... how do i convert this to php > > > >$tmp = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; > >@pairs = split(/&/, $tmp); > > > >foreach $item (@pairs) { > > ($key, $content) = split(/=/,$item,2); > > $content =~ tr/+/ /; > > $content =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge; > > $fields{$key} = $content; > >} > > >