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Hello!

I’ve been having some issues trying to get a global var to get the right data. I’m using EE 1.6.9 and building with structure, and strict urls are on. In an attempt to create year filtering on my entries, I’m creating urls likes this:

http://www.minnesotawineclub.com/news/?year=2009

This has worked in the past on many sites I’ve developed by adding the following code to the path.php file.

$global_vars = array(
    'get:year' => isset($_GET['year']) ? $_GET['year'] : null
);

However, the variable is always returning null. Upon further inspection, I’ve noticed any $_GET I attempt is not returning a value. I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the server I’m on (my first EE site on this server) and the URI Type. I’m currently set to auto (0) as I normally have in the past.

Any insight that could be provided by anyone would be most helpful.

Thank You!

- Anthony

Hi Anthony, and welcome to the forums!

The first thing I’d do is disable your .htaccess file by renaming it, and then set your site’s index page in General Configuration back to ‘index.php’. Do your GET variables come through then?

That’s where I started and shortly there after I found out my host wasn’t supporting path_info which was why I had to use query string. After some research in the forums I found a way to use ORIG_PATH_INFO instead of PATH_INFO in my index.php file. Then things started working perfectly!

Yeesh. I’ve done a few EE sites and PATH_INFO has always worked. Glad to know this workaround.

- Anthony

Very glad to hear that. Please post again as needed.