redirect /this.php to this.php?a=1&b=2

[rickyj]

is there a way to redirect www.example/this.php to www.example/this.php?a=1&b=2

 

I have tried using:

if  ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/this.php") {header( 'Location: http://www.example/this.php?a=1&b=2' );}

 

but this results in a loop, any ideas?

[teng84]

yes you can but it will terminate the loop once it see the header

[rickyj]

I need it to go to the second page, and then display the contense, its just looping at the moment

[clanstyles]

what if you did this

if(!isset($_GET['a'] || isset($_GET['a'])

{

header("Location: page.php?a=1&b=2");

}

[rickyj]

The problem is, I really dont want to use isset and then get (I cant trust users input so do a lot of stipping of characters).  I was initially using isset, and then relised the security flaw

[teng84]

show your code

[rickyj]

Sorry, cant do that,

 

but I can give examples (as the one above)

 

Im bassically asking it there is a way of grabing the full url, since $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] only grabs "/this.php" from www.example.come/this.php?other=things&more=1

 

If I could grab the full url I would be able to show that 'other' and 'more' are or are not set without using isset, or get.

 

I dont like using isset($_GET['a'] )

 

since if the user manipulates the a variable to "a = ']) && more code //",  this is unsafe!

[JJohnsenDK]

use:

 

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

[rickyj]

Referer is not used by all browsers (and can easily be faked)