note 1143 modified in function.getenv by irc-html

To show a use of getenv("QUERY_STRING").... suppose you have a site with frames... the frames create the "interface", and one frame called "main" has an active document... now, suppose you made a page.php3 which took an argument "pg" and spit out the framesets necessary, with "main" frame containing whatever "pg" is... so now you can bring up any page in your site with page.php3?pg=test.html now, take this one step further, and suppose you want outside links to point to php3 pages which takes parameters, ON your site... but you still want them to appear in frames, so what do you do? well, if "ok.php3" was the page you wanted to show, and it was requested as "ok.php3?some=params&go=here", then the very thing in the beginning of ok.php3 could be if (!isset($inframe)) { header("Location: http://yoursite/page.php3?pg=".urlencode("inframes=1&").getenv("QUERY_STRING")); exit; } Now... you might ask, how in the world did I come up with THAT? Well, perhaps it was because I came here not able to remember which environment variable held the query string... --was-- To show a use of getenv("QUERY_STRING").... suppose you have a site with frames... the frames create the "interface", and one frame called "main" has an active document... now, suppose you made a page.php3 which took an argument "pg" and spit out the framesets necessary, with "main" frame containing whatever "pg" is... so now you can bring up any page in your site with page.php3?pg=test.html now, take this one step further, and suppose you want outside links to point to php3 pages which takes parameters, ON your site... but you still want them to appear in frames, so what do you do? well, if "ok.php3" was the page you wanted to show, and it was requested as "ok.php3?some=params&go=here", then the very thing in the beginning of ok.php3 could be <pre>if (!isset($inframe)) { header("Location: http://yoursite/page.php3?pg=".urlencode("inframes=1&").getenv("QUERY_STRING")); exit; }</pre> Now... you might ask, how in the world did I come up with THAT? Well, perhaps it was because I came here not able to remember which environment variable held the query string... http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.getenv.php