Ahh.. Andrew has read my confused mind. Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Solution Accepted or something. :) Ok, I'm going to go home now before I cause any more problems.
-TG > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Kreps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 4:31 PM > To: PHP > Subject: Re: [PHP] checking multiple URL parameters > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT), Chris Shiflett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This makes absolutely no sense to me. What do you mean by > submitted? How > > would a PHP script be executed at all if the browser never sends a > > request? > > > > PHP can be run from the command line, in which case the GET and POST > arrays wouldn't exist. I use this functionality so that I can take > advantage of Pear's DataObjects when I need to do a flat file data > load. Also, imagine if you had a database of URL's that you wanted to > dissect for it's component information? > > That being said, I'm not aware of a PHP function that performs this > operation for you. I remember writing a similar one in Perl many > years ago, that was something like: > > (sorry for the pseudocode, I figure completely wrong is better than > almost right) > > array = regexp_split (/[=&]/, uri) // where uri is everything > after the ? > for (i = 0; i < count(array); i += 2) { > url_var[array[i]] = array[i+1] // You may want to do a > urldecode here > } > > I believe php lets you name vars by adding an additional $ before the > name, such as: > > $varname = "thing"; > $$varname = "data"; > echo $thing // Produces 'data' > > This may be a good starting point. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
