Need valid XHTML

Encenta.com · 03-30-2006, 03:13 PM

Hey. Firstly, I need pages on my webiste to contain the following link:
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/182162-need-valid-xhtml.html

go.php?id=5&url=http://www.newdomain.com

however, it's not valid XHTML. So I've encoded it (which looks horrible and I rather I hadn't but I feel its the only way). And now I cannot decode it. I've used urldecode but it still shows:

go.php?id%3D5%26url%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newdomain.c om

I tried:

PHP Code:

  urldecode($_GET['$url']);

 
// ...and...

 
$url2 = $_GET['$url'];

$url = urldecode($url2);

...but it doesn't work. What would be absaloutley perfect would be something like:

go.php/5/http://www.domain.com

where 5 is the id and http://www.domain.com is the domain.

Thanks

sdsinc · 03-30-2006, 03:50 PM

1. Make sure you have used urlencode() to generate the link
2. Make sure that the name of the parameter in the URL is the same for both pages
3. In the target page you need something like this to fetch the parameter from the URL:
$url=urldecode($_GET['url']);

'url' is a litteral name, remove the $ sign and I guess you should be fine
Please note that $_GET['url'] and $url are two different variables actually, here I'm assigning the value of $_GET['url'] to $url in PHP code

To generate SEO-friendly URLs like go.php/5/http://www.domain.com you could simply used mod_rewrite for automatic URL rewriting so you don't have to handle this in your code...

Encenta.com · 03-30-2006, 04:00 PM

Thanks sdsinc

mch · 04-01-2006, 03:17 AM

A bit offtopic byt why do you use "http://" in the query string? Seems like a waste of 7 bytes

03-30-2006, 03:13 PM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
Encenta.com SQLdumpster.com Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: West Sussex, UK Posts: 573 Follow @MiseriaSK	Need valid XHTML Hey. Firstly, I need pages on my webiste to contain the following link: ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/182162-need-valid-xhtml.html go.php?id=5&url=http://www.newdomain.com however, it's not valid XHTML. So I've encoded it (which looks horrible and I rather I hadn't but I feel its the only way). And now I cannot decode it. I've used urldecode but it still shows: go.php?id%3D5%26url%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.newdomain.c om I tried: PHP Code: `urldecode($_GET['$url']); // ...and... $url2 = $_GET['$url']; $url = urldecode($url2);` ...but it doesn't work. What would be absaloutley perfect would be something like: go.php/5/http://www.domain.com where 5 is the id and http://www.domain.com is the domain. Thanks __________________ Encenta - Amazon Associates CMS Last edited by Encenta.com; 03-30-2006 at 03:19 PM.

03-30-2006, 03:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
sdsinc Domains my Dominion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Web 1.0 Posts: 9,552	1. Make sure you have used urlencode() to generate the link 2. Make sure that the name of the parameter in the URL is the same for both pages 3. In the target page you need something like this to fetch the parameter from the URL: $url=urldecode($_GET['url']); 'url' is a litteral name, remove the $ sign and I guess you should be fine Please note that $_GET['url'] and $url are two different variables actually, here I'm assigning the value of $_GET['url'] to $url in PHP code To generate SEO-friendly URLs like go.php/5/http://www.domain.com you could simply used mod_rewrite for automatic URL rewriting so you don't have to handle this in your code... __________________ NameNewsletter.com - free lists of available domain names ZoneFiles.net (beta) - ccTLD and gTLD droplists

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Encenta.com SQLdumpster.com Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: West Sussex, UK Posts: 573 Follow @MiseriaSK	Thanks sdsinc __________________ Encenta - Amazon Associates CMS

04-01-2006, 03:17 AM	#4 (permalink)
mch NamePros Regular Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: EU Posts: 248	A bit offtopic byt why do you use "http://" in the query string? Seems like a waste of 7 bytes

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