Getting URL Variables

Getting URL Variables

One thing I have been working with a lot lately is parsing URL variables.

Quick and easy:

Code:

$string1 = $_GET['Variable'];

Replace variable with whatever url variable you want to fetch and put into a string.

For example if your url was:

Code:

http://www.myurl.com/index.html?option=123

then you would use:

Code:

$option = $_GET['option'];

And whatever you put in the url for option would be in the $option variable.

That's nifty!

How would one know that should be $_GET ... is it automatically a GET if it isn't coming from a form labeled POST?