Question

Is there a simple php coding way how to add variable(s) “dynamic or fixed types” to include in a link so that the link doesn’t show up as a clean url. And this an example of what I mean:

www.example.com/folder/sense/home

To

www.example.com/folder/sense/index.php?type=article&id=25&date_written=20100322

Or

www.example.com/folder/sense/index.php?id=25

I hope it is clear what I’m up to.

P.S: this is all in Apache

Thanks

Answer 1

The http_build_query function (http://php.net/manual/en/function.http-build-query.php) will convert an array of data into an urlencoded string of variables.

Example from the link above:

<?php
$data = array('foo'=>'bar',
          'baz'=>'boom',
          'cow'=>'milk',
          'php'=>'hypertext processor');

echo http_build_query($data) . "\n";
?>

will output

foo=bar&baz=boom&cow=milk&php=hypertext+processor