After the ?....

I just want to know if this has a name, I am sure it is a php thing but it sort of falls under this catigory. Say you log into like an email account. It would have:

www.example.com/mail/whatever/?=..........

what elements is it pulling to do this?

I sort of have to do this for my shopping cart when people purchase, I am using a CRM that uses something like {productName}

So I am trying to make it like (for the css) :

.../css/theCSS.php?productname={productName}

 

I think this is a GET parameter.

Taking your example:
./css/theCSS.php?productname=productNamn

You can get the product name via

$_GET["productname"]

Some more info

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/php_get_post.htm
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php

Code (markup):

 

it's a GET parameter and you can have quite a few one after the other. It's used a lot to send information from one page to another.
The first starts with ? and then the rest are delimited with &
for example: myPage.php?productID=120&price=20&color=blue&title=nice shoes

 

Sorry fellas, the correct answer was a Php query string. . I do know hey does the same but I use POST

 

http://ditio.net/2008/06/12/php-query-string/

sorry if that came off as rude.

 

Uhm... Sorry Charlie, but no it isn't... since it was in the HTTP 1.0 draft specification some four to five years before PHP was a twinkle in Rasmus Lerdorf's eye.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Methods.html

Which was clarified and solidified along with POST in 1.0 final.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#GET

Which is why I was using it with PERL before anyone ever even HEARD of PHP.

While PHP may assign it to a $_SERVER index CALLED "QUERY_STRING", that is not what it or that method of sending data to the server is called. "getData" or "get" is the accurate name for it.

I was going to rag on that link you posted as the typical misinformation I'd expect from turdpress scale ineptitude, but I think you just mis-read or misinterpreted that article. (which is far less harmful -- that happens)

 

ya but the project I am working on was not a form that utilized GET or POST. But Query Strings for php file_get_contents

 

that and I am using $_REQUEST

 

Which still uses HTTP requests if it's off site or being served via HTTP... which if you're calling PHP file_get_contents will NOT execute a .php on the same system, it'll just fetch the source code, so you MUST be using HTTP for that, even if PHP is hiding it from you.

Which is just $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE added together. Has nothing to do with it.