Get a variable from a link?

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Get a variable from a link?

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Nearly Normal Warren

Posted: 09/21/2003, 9:46 AM

Does anyone know how to pick up a variable from a link?

If a customer clicks a link in my email to him and the link contains his account number how do I format that link and how do I access the account number in the PHP program he links to?

Format the link: perhaps something like:
www.website.com/program.php?acct=12345 or www.website.com/program.php/acct=12345

....then how does the PHP program address "acct"?

nhoj

Posted: 09/21/2003, 11:30 AM

Nearly,
>>Format the link: perhaps something like:
www.website.com/program.php?acct=12345 or www.website.com/program.php/acct=12345
<<

www.website.com/program.php?acct=12345
is the correct way.
for help with the format of links and such I would start at this link.
http://www.w3schools.com/

and for the PHP I would look at
http://www.php.net/tut.php

Hank.

Nearly Normal Warren

Posted: 09/21/2003, 11:50 AM

Thanks!

This from http://us4.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php.

GET also applies to the QUERY_STRING (the information after the '?' in an URL). So, for example, http://www.example.com/test.php?id=3 contains GET data which is accessible with $_GET['id']. See also $_REQUEST and import_request_variables().

RonB

Posted: 09/21/2003, 12:21 PM

then how does the PHP program address "acct"?

use the CCgetParam() function to get the variable and use it in any way you want.

Or, if the parameter is to be processed in a grid set a parameter in the query for that grid with parameter source url

Ron

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