The Query String

[duniyadnd]

I understand one of the glorious things about PHP is obtaining data via Query Strings, which starts with a "?"

I tested putting multiple "?" in multiple locations (not including putting it next to the variable value), and there don't seem to be any difference, does the language ignore subsequent "?" and take the variables from the first "?" onwards? Or does it make a difference?

Duniyadnd

[raf]

I understand one of the glorious things about PHP is obtaining data via Query Strings,
Not a PHP thing. ASP, JSP etc can all do that. In fact i think the get-method is older then PHP.
I tested putting multiple "?" in multiple locations (not including putting it next to the variable value), and there don't seem to be any difference, does the language ignore subsequent "?" and take the variables from the first "?" onwards? Or does it make a difference?
What do you mean ?

[duniyadnd]

Not a PHP thing. ASP, JSP etc can all do that. In fact i think the get-method is older then PHP.

That's a given, i was trying to add humour, i guess i should stop trying that.. ;)

How??

domain.com/folder/blah.php?some=xyz&thing=yzx&cool=zyx

Would be written as:

domain.com/folder/blah.php??some=xyz&?thing=yzx&?cool=zyx

Duniyadnd

[raf]

I geuss i'm just to spupid. (could have done with some humour though) Maye, to make things easier on dumb people like me, ad some humor-tags around it.

Anyway. It shouldn't make a difference. Your variablename then simply is "?some" or your value is "what?ever". I know for sure ASP treats it like that, and i suspect php doing the same. (to tiered to trie it out right now)

[Grant Palin]

I think you only need one "?", immediately after the actual URL, before the query string.

[duniyadnd]

Yeah, I know I only need one, but I was just curious does more than one change anything?

Duniyadnd

[Spookster]

I haven't looked it up but I can imagine that the PHP parser will look for a ? and then after that it will look for a variable name and then an equal sign and then a value until it sees a & indicating the start of another variable name. So for example in the codingforums url

http://www.codingforums.com/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=19664

after the ? we have the first parameter:

s=

and then the second

action=newreply

and then the third

threadid=19664

If you put additional ?'s in the query string then I imagine they will be treated as part of the variable name or value.