Another Noob question

[shage]

If my url contains following http://www.yahoo.com/josh=birthday or josh=graduation or mike=birthday for a family album what is the best way to pull out josh and birthday or mike and birthday

[thebadbad]

If you mean example.com/index.php?josh=birthday, then $_GET['josh'] will contain "birthday".

But I guess you want to use example.com/index.php?name=josh&event=birthday, where $_GET['name'] would contain "josh" and $_GET['event'] would contain "birthday".

[shage]

that would work if i rewrote the script i bought, the way it works is like i said, im looking for a way to include a file that would pull such info out and get the extra stuff in the db i set on a sep db, like maybe age of the photos, etc

[thebadbad]

Okay, if your URL's look like example.com/josh=birthday you could use explode() to get "josh" and "birthday":

 

<?php
$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; // will set $url to "/josh=birthday"
$removeslash = explode('/', $url); // $removeslash[1] now contains "josh=birthday"
$bits = explode('=', $removeslash[1]);
// $bits[0] contains "josh"
// $bits[1] contains "birthday"
?>