[SOLVED] A Little Help Please

[CoolAffiilate]

Hey Php Freaks!

 

I need some help here. Im really new at php... so if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great!

 

Here is what I am looking for:

 

A person signs up at my newsletter.  [email protected].

 

The newsletter script ads them to  the database, then sends them to the subscribed page with the variable added to the query string:

 

mynewsletter.com/subscribed.html?address=coolguys%email

 

but what i need is to send them to a page that needs the variable

 

mynewsletter.com/welcome.php?email=

 

It will use the variable.

 

So, i need a script that will read a query string, and convert it into a new URL...

 

Anyone understand?

 

Thanks!

[annihilate]

I'm not too sure exactly what you are after, but if you want to read the parameters in the query string, on the page you can just do:

 

$email_address = $_GET['email'];

 

So on your welcome.php page, that bit of code will give you the value of the email address that is in the query string.

[CoolAffiilate]

Thank you...

 

But the problem is slightly different. What i need to do is capture the query string, and pass it on to a partner via URL. mine is:

 

cool.com/welcome.php?address=emailaddy

 

but they need

 

notcool.com/welcome.php?email=emailaddy

 

It needs to work similiar to a redirect.

[annihilate]

Do you want an automatic redirection from your cool.com/welcome.php page to the nocool.com/welcome.php page or does a link need to be clicked first to go to the nocool.com site?

[CoolAffiilate]

It needs to be a redirect.

[annihilate]

On your welcome.php page: (needs to go before any output)

 

$email_address = $_GET['address']; // email address passed in query string
header("Location: http://www.notcool.com/welcome.php?email=".$email_address); // the redirect

 

Are you doing anything else on the welcome.php page, or just the redirect, because if its just the redirect, it seems a bit redundant.  You might as well handle the redirect beforehand where you add the email address to the database etc.

[CoolAffiilate]

Wow, thank you! I would just put the <?php and close it, then done right?

[annihilate]

That's right.  Could also add an exit() statement just in case something goes wrong.

 

<?php
$email_address = $_GET['address']; // email address passed in query string
header("Location: http://www.notcool.com/welcome.php?email=".$email_address); // the redirect
exit();
?>

[CoolAffiilate]

THANK YOU! I have been searching for hours how to do this. Its so simple. Agian, thank you!