Wow... ok now i get it.. thanks guys
Aaron Moore
"Michael Kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Aaron, CC Zona wrote before that:
>
>
> If track_vars is on (always true if version >= 4.0.3), then the global
vars
> $HTTP_GET_VARS['bob'] and $HTTP_GET_VARS['phil'] are already set.
>
> And if register_globals is on, then the global vars $bob and $phil are
also
> already set.
>
> --------------------------------------
> Taking from your original post -
>
> file.php?bob=manager&phil=employ
>
>
> If you create a file.php in your server, and hit it with
> file.php?bob=manager,
> you should just be able to say
>
> <? echo $bob; ?>
>
> and you'll get "manager" printed out for you. Most installations of
> PHP, by default,
> create variables for you from the GET string parameters. There can be a
> security concern
> if you're not careful to validate the data that you get in from those
> GET strings,
> but this 'ease of use' (not having to use that Perl stuff from below, or
> firing up CGI.pm
> every request) is one of the main attractions to PHP for beginning
> developers.
>
> CC Zona also wrote that you can use the $HTTP_GET_VARS array (which would
> be the equivalent to the $fields{} array that is created below. One
really
> nifty thing about PHP that isn't addressed in your Perl snippet below is
> arrays -
>
> file.php?name[]=mike&name[]=dave&name[]=keith
>
> would give me an array called $name with 3 elements in it. There's most
> likely
> a Perl module to handle that (does CGI.pm handle that) but it's handled
> automatically
> in PHP.
>
> Aaron Moore wrote:
>
> >Well hers teh perl version of the the parser... how do i convert this to
php
> >
> >$tmp = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
> >@pairs = split(/&/, $tmp);
> >
> >foreach $item (@pairs) {
> > ($key, $content) = split(/=/,$item,2);
> > $content =~ tr/+/ /;
> > $content =~ s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
> > $fields{$key} = $content;
> >}
> >
>
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