phph within href not showing php if change ? to &

[runnerjp]

<a href="<?php echo  $puser; ?>?m=<?php=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?php =(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>">

 

with the code above it displays /runnerjp?m=10&y=09  BUT if i chnage the ?m to &m then my $puser; doesnt show and all i get is /&m=....  why?

[taquitosensei]

the first variable in a url is prefaced by a ?  the rest with & 

[runnerjp]

but i need it like this http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin&m=11&y=2009

[mrMarcus]

the ? tells the system to be ready for a query string and accept values thereafter delimitered with &.

 

surely you can accomplish the same thing doing it the right way.  why do you need it like that?

[runnerjp]

When i do it like this http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin?&m=2&y=2009 the script wont pick up the ? but when i do it like this http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin&m=2&y=2009 the script picks up the month....

[runnerjp]

could it be due to my htaccess its not working

 

 

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ members/index.php?page=profile&username=$1

[cags]

The question mark is a regular expression special character, to match it literally you will have to escape it. That's certainly the case if you were using a PCRE function, I assume the .htaccess regex engine is similar.

 

^([^/.]+)/\?$ 

[runnerjp]

im not great on htaccess ...infact i know pritty much nothing lol

 

my file looks liek this

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

 

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ members/index.php?page=profile&username=$1

 

 

am i right by saying i need to chnage this then?

[mrMarcus]

The question mark is a regular expression special character, to match it literally you will have to escape it. That's certainly the case if you were using a PCRE function, I assume the .htaccess regex engine is similar.

 

^([^/.]+)/\?$ 

the question mark in question,  /? is stating that the new URL can end with or without a forward slash, and therefore, does not need to be escaped.

[mrMarcus]

going back to your original post:

 

with the code above it displays /runnerjp?m=10&y=09

 

and then you proceed to say how when you change the query string it "doesnt show".

 

does the querystring, when formatted:

/runnerjp?m=10&y=09

work for you?  is there even a problem at hand?

 

thing is, you have RewriteRule's in place, but aren't actually using them .. thus, confusing yourself in the code.  reconsider your need for rewrite's.

[cags]

Why don't you give us an example input URL and the actual URL that you wish it to link to and we can work from there.

[runnerjp]

dang ...sop what is the matter with it??  if i type in manually into the url address bar http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin&m=6&y=2009 it works great but when i try run it via the script like this <a href="<?php echo  $puser; ?>&m=<?php=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?php =(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>"> it wont show the variable of $puser... if i saw the & with ? it will show it but the script wont pick up m=

[mrMarcus]

what does this read on the page:

 

<?php echo $puser; ?>&m=<?php=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?php =(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>">

 

copy and paste it here.

[runnerjp]

<a href="<? echo  $puser; ?>&m=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>">

  = http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/&m=9&y=2009

[runnerjp]

i must note if i do this

 

<a href="<? echo  $puser; ?>?m=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>">

i get

 

http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin?m=9&y=2009

 

[mrMarcus]

i must note if i do this

 

<a href="<? echo  $puser; ?>?m=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? 12 : $m-1 ?>&y=<?=(($m-1)<1) ? $y-1 : $y ?>">

i get

 

http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin?m=9&y=2009

 

and what is wrong with that?  that looks right .. it has your username, the month and the year all there.  why doesn't that work for ya?

[cags]

Forgive my ignorance but I still don't see your objective. You appear to be saying you wish to URL forward /members/?m=9&y=2009 to /members/index.php?page=profile&username=something which to me makes no sense at all.

 

A standard example I would expect to see mod_rewrite employed for...

 

Take http://www.example.com/members/john/ and redirect to http://www.example.com/members.php?name=john

 

The main reason to use mod_rewrite is to avoid having GET attributes in the URL.

 

 

[mrMarcus]

^i'm with him .. i still don't know that i fully understand the problem at this point?  like was said, what is your objective with this?

[runnerjp]

ok sorry... basicly i have a calander within my profile page... and for the calander to select previous or coming up months i need to have m=? within the url  so m is month and the number 1-12 represents the month needed to be selected. thats why im using m=... obviusly when a user 1st goes on the page the current month is selected within the code and m= is not needed.

 

mrMarcus when i use that code for some reaosn my $_get wont grab the m= :S no idea why

[mrMarcus]

k, try this (untested):

 

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([0-9])/([0-9])/?$ members/index.php?page=profile&username=$1&month=$2&year=$3

 

this will now create a URL like so:

 

http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin/9/2009/

 

now, feel free to use $_GET['month'] and $_GET['year'].

 

let me know how that pans out.

[runnerjp]

sent me to a this page desent exists kinda one

[cags]

Ok, I understand that you wish to pass date and month, but it appears you've chosen to do this in the form of ?m=10&y=2009 which is fine, but where does mod_rewrite come into it? Are you attempting to merge that functionality with a mod_rewrite on username?

 

For example trying to rewrite...

http://www.example.com/members/john/?m=10&y=2009

to

http://www.example.com/index.php?page=members&m=10&y=2009

 

EDIT: Looks like mrMarcus came to a similar conclusion... Try adding a forward slash before members to make sure the base is correct (ie RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([0-9])/([0-9])/?$ /members/index.php?page=profile&username=$1&month=$2&year=$3

[mrMarcus]

my bad.

 

try replacing what i gave you with this:

 

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ members/index.php?page=profile&username=$1&month=$2&year=$3 [NC,L]

 

the [NC,L] are conditions .. NC=no case, and L=last .. so once this condition (your RewriteRule is met, the script stops searching).

[runnerjp]

Ok i did that... it loads up http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin fine but add http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin/9 and it wont go to the page

[mrMarcus]

Ok i did that... it loads up http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin fine but add http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin/9 and it wont go to the page

you must enter a year in the URL, ie.

 

http://www.runningprofiles.com/members/Admin/9/2009/

 

each attribute of the rewrite must be met .. of course, you can create additional rewrites to accommodate different URL's.