profile.php?$username=blah Help Please

[Dracolas]

Ok i'm really new to php. I've Seen it where sites have profile pages for their members and i've seen it like

www.yoursite.com/profile.php?$username=blah

I would like to know how to make that work... in other words how do i make profile.php recognize that the $username in the url is the username to use for the page.

Any assistance is appreciated.

[mattal999]

Well you could either do:

 

http://www.example.com/profile.php?username=USERNAME

Then retrieve it using:

$username = $_GET['username'];

OR

 

http://www.example.com/profile.php?USERNAME

And access it using:

 

$username = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; // Bear in mind that if any other variables are in this it will return the whole string eg. USERNAME&id=2

[Dracolas]

Thank You mattal999!

I thought I would need to use the get function but I didn't understand how to do that. Thank you for helping me figure this out