Using a querystring parameter or User Session Variable

Instead of querystrings I would use EE style URIs and use segments.

That is, instead of http://site.com/?myvar=foo

Make the uri http://site.com/foo and test for {segment_1 == 'foo'} in the template.

There are lots of ways to slice this donkey, including using querystrings (as you are used to) but you’ll probably have to mess with the .htaccess rules the remove index.php from the URIs (so you have clean URLs) to allow for it.

Learn more about the way EE urls work: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/general/urls.html

Thanks so much and please forgive this novice at EE and PHP. So you are saying I could create a URI to go to the “donate” page of alarm-inc.org and pass a paramter “foo” as follows:

http://www.alarm-inc.org/donate/foo

And the “donate” page would use the paramater to fill a textbox as follows:

<input type=”text” name=”designation” value=”<?php echo $this=>EE->input->{segment_1}(‘designation’); ?>” >

and the “designation” textfield would initially display “foo”?

Actually it’s easier than that. Note, in your example, donate is segment 1, foo is sement 2 (unless you didn’t install EE in root of your site).

<input type=“text” name=“designation” value=”{segment_2}” />

http://www.alarm-inc.org/donate/foo would then output

<input type=“text” name=“designation” value=”foo” />

http://www.alarm-inc.org/donate/amilliondollars would then output

<input type=“text” name=“designation” value=”amilliondollars” />

<input type=”text” value=”{segment_2}” name=”pg_billto_postal_name_first” />

yields ”{segment_2}” (including the quotes) in the name field.

EE is not installed in the root of the site the URI I used to get to the page is

http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate/foo

A little wild - http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate/foo

<input type=“text” name=“pg_billto_postal_name_first” value=”{segment_3}” /> yields “foo” (with the quotes)

This is almost what I want except for the quotes

Can anyone help me strip the quotes from the beginning and end?

Hot Zig!

http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate/foo

<input type=“text” name=“pg_billto_postal_name_first” value={segment_3} /> yields “foo” (WITHOUT the quotes)

Thank you all so much!!!!

Ah so it sounds like you’re not using EE templates? Just the framework then? You have your work cut out for you!

Here’s some code I used recently for custom paging (using DB assets outside my EE install so couldn’t/didn’t want to use channels). Maybe helpful reference for you.

Re: stripping quotes, I remember reading about something against using preg_replace() in EE for performance reasons, not sure, you may have to google around for that.

My setup uses URIs like http://site.com/search_result/50/page5/ (50 is the page result set size, and page5 would be the 5th page of results.

//look at third URI segment for page size, default to 25 if not found
$page_size = $this->EE->uri->segment(3, 25);

//look at fourth URI segment for page number, default to 'page1' if not found
//use substring to remove 'page' from URI
$page_current = substr($this->EE->uri->segment(4, 'page1'),4);


$page_start = ($page_size * ($page_current - 1)) + 1;    //first row of the current page set
$page_end = ($page_start + $page_size) - 1;                //last row of the current page

Now using:

http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate

<input type=“text” name=“pg_billto_postal_name_first” value={segment_3} />

yields a “/” (without the quotes)

I changed it to <input type=“text” name=“pg_billto_postal_name_first” value={segment_3}>

And it works in with and without the third segment “foo” http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate and http://alarm-inc.org/get_involved/donate/foo

both work.

Glad things are working for you.

I just added the “/” compulsively because input is a self-closing tag (not a pair). http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_input.asp