$_GET variable not working in this case

**legend.raju** · 12-30-2009, 11:33 PM

both of them not working ..
can u tell me how new orkut works ..
everything is dynamic over there .. !

my case is similar to orkut scrapbook ... now . .!

**legend.raju** · 12-31-2009, 01:02 AM

check gmail standard version address bar

http://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox

similar to what i get
something/?username=abcd#members
if i use the GET variable ....

they too have a ajax page loaded dynamically in the right ... !

**bluewalrus** · 12-31-2009, 01:17 AM

Yea google and orkut work together. They use and ajax. Trying to explaing everything they have going on would take a while if you just want the address bar to look like that make the form action to "?userid=<?php echo $userid; ?>#home" you'd have to use a sql statment to get the id though and validate the login.

**alphonse.tan** · 12-31-2009, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by bluewalrus

Yea google and orkut work together. They use and ajax. Trying to explaing everything they have going on would take a while if you just want the address bar to look like that make the form action to "?userid=<?php echo $userid; ?>#home" you'd have to use a sql statment to get the id though and validate the login.

doing this.. it would be better to use $_REQUEST['userid'];

**bluewalrus** · 12-31-2009, 04:06 AM

The variables in $_REQUEST are provided to the script via the GET, POST, and COOKIE input mechanisms and therefore could be modified by the remote user and cannot be trusted.

How is REQUEST better?

**djr33** · 12-31-2009, 07:43 AM

$_REQUEST holds the values of GET, POST and COOKIE, so it is more general and will work regardless of how a variable is sent: for example, if you don't know whether a value will be send in the url or by a form with method="post", or maybe even in a cookie, then that will hold all of them and you don't need to worry about it.

However, using $_REQUEST is lazy and bad practice if you know the variable will only becoming from one source. It's like a lesser version of register_globals, though at least it doesn't end up conflicting with anything else in the script.

**legend.raju** · 12-31-2009, 08:07 AM

whatever variable passing it is , in the child page it is not working
i tried this

Code:

action="?user=<?php echo $userid; ?>#members"

when i use the $_get/post/request var in members.php it is not working
BUT when i use it in the main index.php it is working ......
.........

**djr33** · 12-31-2009, 08:27 AM

Is that the action of a form? You can use get variables as the action only if the form itself is set to method="post", so that the values do not conflict.
action="?ex=ample" would remove that when submitted if the method="get".