Re: how to process URL parameers

Dear PHPers, Thanks for the extra hands! They all work!! --Wo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Price" <pricee@hhbrown.com> To: "Wo Chang" <wchang@nist.gov> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] how to process URL parameers > > On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 09:54 AM, Wo Chang wrote: > > > Sorry to trouble you with this simple question! > > > > if I have this php code: > > > > echo "<a > > href=http://abc.com/test.php?xyz>try</a>"; > > > > how would I process the xyz from test.php? > > It needs to be a name/value pair, like this: > > echo "<a > href='http://abc.com/test.php?name=value'>try</a>"; > > Most people do it like this, letting them put a PHP variable in there: > > echo "<a > > href=\"http://abc.com/test.php?variablename=$php_variable\">try</a>"; > > or if you don't like to use escaped doublequotes, try > > echo '<a > href="http://abc.com/test.php?variablename=' . > $php_variable . > '">try</a>'; > > > > Erik > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com