Your PHP is fine. Your URL sucks. :-) You can't have spaces in the data, nor / nor all kinds of stuff. Which is why you should ALWAYS call: http://php.net/urlencode on data before you cram it into a URL. *then*, if you are putting that URL into HTML for a person to click on, you need to make it kosher for HTML browser output, which means you need: http://php.net/htmlentities Sample usage: $ph = 'My Website'; $cf = 'home.htm'; $url = 'www.mywebsite.com'; $url .= '?ph=' . urlencode($ph); $url .= '&cf=' . urlencode($cf); echo '<a href="', htmlentities($url), '">click me</a>'; On Fri, October 20, 2006 8:35 am, andrew newman wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: andrew newman <andjnewman@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Oct 20, 2006 2:30 PM > Subject: Parsing and using URL variables > To: php-general-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Hello > > I am very new to PHP and I am trying to parse the values of variables > from a URL into a web page. to build a very simple CMS! > > For example if the url is > > www.mywebsite.com?ph=My Website&pt=Welcome Page&cf=home.htm > > I then have a php file that is something like this: > > <html> > <head> > <title> > <?php $val = $_GET['ph']; echo $val;?> > </title> > </head > <body> > <b><?php $val = $_GET['pt']; echo $val;?></b> > <p/> > <?php $val = $_GET['cf']; Include '$val'; ?> > </body> > </html> > > Any advice would be most welcome! > > Thanks Andrew > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
