UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting regarding PHP ending extension

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how does the end of .php extension generates those numbers like:

.php?threadid=10590

or other things at the end..
are they generated by SQL? are they goin to be generated everytime i make a new php and run it ?

regards

im a beginner and I "think" that is a query. Its generated by the server and sends the info back to your browser in that url form.

Im not 100% sure though.

-Ghoste

Thats a Form input. Information is passed to servers either using form fields or cookies.

The server script get this information and process it, using it for queries to a database or whatever. Then it displays a page with the processed information.

There are two methods of passing information using forms. One is Get, which will display this information in the address (unless the field is a Password or button type) like you wrote, separating them with "?", like ?fieldname=value?fieldname2=value2 . The other one is Post, which will not show the information in the address.

I suggest taking a look at HTML Form coding to see how this is done inside an html. Here's a brief example, anyway

Submitting this will create this code after the script name:

?myname=itsecret

lol enough.

WHA!!
cool thanks man that explains it now ;]]]
can you actually put regular html in PHP's and will it still work ? ;]

[ April 03, 2001: Message edited by: d1rX ]

php is an html file renamed to .php (or not if configured), where you put this



inside and the code is interpreted by the server.

you can find more information here if you want, under "documentation" http://www.php.net/

WEEEEEEEE
cool thing mate
thanks again ;]]]