Passing a Get variable without the variable name

[jlove]

This is a simple question but it puzzles me..

If it pass a variable without the variable name ike this :
[code]page.php?hello[/code]

How do I catch tat in the PHP code? I've tried $_REQUEST[''] but that doesn't seem to work...

[ysu]

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This is a simple question but it puzzles me..

If it pass a variable without the variable name ike this :
[code]page.php?hello[/code]

How do I catch tat in the PHP code? I've tried $_REQUEST[''] but that doesn't seem to work...
[/quote]
It's not a variable without name, it's a variable without value.
try to echo all $_GET values, or simply var_dump($_GET)
to see what I mean

[asylum]

$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']

that will get the query string as an actual string so you can simply pass a value without a variable name.

[wildteen88]

Your best of looking into mod_rewrite instead. Its much easier.

What mod_rewrite can do is change the following url:
mysite.com/page.php?var1=hello&var2=world

into something like this:
mysite.com/page/hello/world

a friendly URL