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[nycphp-talk] What is $QUERY_STRING ?

louie louie at zibi.co.il
Tue Mar 11 18:53:46 EST 2003


greetings,

first i like to say that this subject dont realy
have a lot of info so many people i know including myself having problem
understanding it the first time,

now i want to ask for the best way to deal with calling function
in a url

function one(){

echo "bla bla";

}

function two(){
echo "<a href=\\"$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]?action=one\\">one</a>";
}

switch($_GET['$action']){
case "one":
    one();
    break;
    default:
    two();
     break ;
}

this would work fine if the register globals on , and even than
$action you will have undefined var ($action),
but when register globals off this wont work,
what is the best way to fix this problem, if you have many pages
like that and you want to change your php.ini setting of register globals to
off
without messing around with the code too much?



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Sklar" <sklar at sklar.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] What is $QUERY_STRING ?


> $QUERY_STRING is the stuff after the "?" in a GET URL:
>
> http://www.example.com/cart.php?item=cereal&quantity=56
>
> $QUERY_STRING (or $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) is "item=cereal&quantity=56".
>
> It doesn't have to be key/value pairs:
>
> http://www.example.com/cart.php?buy
>
> $QUERY_STRING is "buy".
>
> You didn't see it in the form you used below because the method was POST.
> Change it to GET and watch the query string bloom.
>
> David
>
> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:09 AM, Matthew Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Ok, this may sound like a really naive question, but I will ask
> > anyway.
> >
> > What is the predefined variable $QUERY_STRING ? The PHP manual says:
> >
> > 'QUERY_STRING'
> > The query string, if any, via which the page was accessed.
> >
> > That definition is a bit tautological:) I ask because I have some code
> > I grabed from a website and it contains the line:
> >
> > <form action="<?=$PHP_SELF?><?if($QUERY_STRING){ echo"?".
> > $QUERY_STRING;}?>"method="POST">
> >
> > I am guessing this means if the form has been submitted, the key/value
> > pairs will be contained in a variable called $QUERY_STRING, but maybe
> > I am way off there?
> >
> > Just to test I made a simple form:
> >
> > <form action="test2.php" method="post">
> >
> > Name<input type="text" name="name">
> > Address<input type="text" name="address" >
> > Title<input type="text" name="title" >
> > <input type="submit" name="Submit"">
> > </form>
> >
> > I sent that to
> >
> > <?php
> >
> > $x= $_POST[name];
> > $y= $_POST[address];
> > $z= $_POST[title];
> >
> > print ("$x ");
> > print ("$y ");
> > print ("$z ");
> > print ($QUERY_STRING);
> >>
> >
> > But nothing prints out for $QUERY_STRING. I tired both POST and GET.
> >
> > Thanks! I am asking this question mostly out of curiosity. The code I
> > downloaded works fine. I just want to know why it works.
> >
> > Matt
>
>
>
>
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