Generally we don't add functions to replace simple one-line PHP
expressions.
$url .= strstr($url,'?')?"?foo=$foo":"&foo=$foo";
-Rasmus
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Juan Alonso wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I find often myself wanting to append a variable to an unknown url. The
> problem is that you don't know if you should append the var with ? or
> with &. Do you think it would be useful to have a builtin function that
> would do this automatically?
>
> example code as I do it actually:
> <?php
> $foo = mt_rand();
> $separator = (ereg('?', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) ? '&' : '?';
> $url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].$separator.'foo='.$foo;
> ?>
>
>
> example code with the new version:
> <?php
> $foo = mt_rand();
> $url = urlappendvar($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'foo', $foo);
> ?>
>
>
> I use it quite frequently so I thought it could be useful to have such
> functionality builtin.
>
> What do you think?
>
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> Juan Alonso Hern�ndez
> Desarrollo, Seguridad y Sistemas
>
> www.art3mis.com | (34) 91 530 16 33
>
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