Question

The site I manage uses php urls to show a detail.php dynamically for each product (still new to php, please bear with me).

the currently look like this:

domain.com/detail.php?id=123

can I use a different attribute (not sure if that’s what it’s called) so I can have slightly more user friendly urls?

Like:

domain.com/detail.php?name=Product+Name

and if so… how? for the life of me I can’t figure it out or search for the right terms (probably just don’t know their correct names yet). I figured it would be simple as a %20 instead of the spaces, but as you all probably know, this doesn’t do it.

I have name set to varchar, and I have no idea if that makes a difference.

any help is appreciated, this isn’t an urgent thing.

Answer 1

I’m really not sure where you’re having trouble. This very basic example works just fine for me:

<?php
    if (isset($_GET["name"]))
        die("name = {$_GET["name"]}");    /* outputs "name = Product Name" */

    $row = "Product Name";
?><a href="test.php?name=<?php echo $row; ?>">Click here</a>