Question

I am trying to get an HTML/PHP script to interpret data sent after the ? in a url. I’ve seen sites that do this, YouTube being one of them. I thought this was called Post Data (not sure if it is), I’ve been searching for a few days, and I can find is the PHP $_POST[''] with some HTML forms reading the data from a textbox, but I would like to read directly from the url, EX. http://www.example.com?ver=1

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

What you’re looking for is called a query string. You can find that data in $_GET.

print_r($_GET);

If you need access to the raw data (and you probably don’t, unless you need multiples for some variable names), check $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].