Re: New function proposal urlappendvar()

Generally we don't add functions to replace simple one-line PHP expressions. $url .= strstr($url,'?')?"?foo=$foo":"&foo=$foo"; -Rasmus On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Juan Alonso wrote: > Hello list, > > I find often myself wanting to append a variable to an unknown url. The > problem is that you don't know if you should append the var with ? or > with &. Do you think it would be useful to have a builtin function that > would do this automatically? > > example code as I do it actually: > <?php > $foo = mt_rand(); > $separator = (ereg('?', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) ? '&' : > '?'; > $url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].$separator.'foo='.$foo; > ?> > > > example code with the new version: > <?php > $foo = mt_rand(); > $url = urlappendvar($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'foo', $foo); > ?> > > > I use it quite frequently so I thought it could be useful to have such > functionality builtin. > > What do you think? > > -- > Juan Alonso Hernández > Desarrollo, Seguridad y Sistemas > > www.art3mis.com | (34) 91 530 16 33 > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >