Forum Subject: php in general....

Posted on: 04/03/03 12:03pm
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)

Hi, i am a semi noob in php, i know my way around and have written lotsa hacks... Now im gonna write my own php website from scratch..now then... i got a book, and all the web help possible but i need the basics... which... none of the above have helped me with. Now my special request, is that someone explain to me how does php pass variables around... i mean how does it work when you click a link for example and it's like /index.php?topic=yourtopic&something=something This is cruacial but unfortunately i have little or no idea what that means or how it works. Excuse my ignorance and thanks again.

php in general....

Posted on: 04/03/03 08:58pm
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)

It works the same way as any other programming language. If you don't understand this concept then you aren't ready to write a whole site from scratch. You need to get the basics under your belt first, or you're going to write very ugly and inefficient code. I don't know what book you got but you need one on basic programming concepts.

php in general....

Posted on: 04/04/03 10:33am
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)

Check out http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php[*1] .

To get variables off the query string depends on your PHP setup but $myLocalVariable = $_GET['queryStringVariable'] should work on most current PHP setups.

-dubz

php in general....

Posted on: 04/04/03 11:52am
By: Anonymous (Anonymous)

Thanks for that link i think i answered my question.