Re: Defining PHP varibles from URL

I would advise against doing that unless you really know what your doing. Doing it that way will allow anyone to type in any file on your server that PHP has access to and load it, or possibly load a file off of another server. That said, if you have a url like page.php?file=foo.inc Then that value will be present in $_GET["file"] (PHP 4.1+) or $HTTP_GET_VARS["file"] (PHP <4.1) include($_GET["file"]); include($HTTP_GET_VARS["file"]); ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: webmaster@tececo.com To: php-general-uc.1020556536.jjfnbcbjfcmealicppog-webmaster=tececo.com@lists.php.net Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:28 AM Subject: [PHP] Defining PHP varibles from URL I don't mean to be a pain but could someone send me a working example? I am what you would probably call a 'newbie' For those who don't know here is my previous message can't seem to define a varible from the url entered into a browser. I wish to use the following code or something like it. <script language="php"> $file = ""; //the above is defined from the url include "$file"; </script> It could be what I was typing in the url bar. file.php?file=foobar.inc Thanks, JJ Harrison webmaster@tececo.com www.tececo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php