[RESOLVED]Passing URL vars ?

[voxberry]

Hello .

I'm working on a function that displays some data from mysql .

so at some point I need to get a var from the url : http://www.site.com/index.php?page=home&[b]somevar[/b]=somedata

I can use $_GET['somevar'];
but I think I'm doing it wrong .

I found that smarty should work with this : $smarty.get.somevar . but it does not work for me .

any help on passing url vars ?

[jmcgin51]

this is not a CMSMS question.  Any PHP tutorial site will explain this.  I like www.w3schools.com/php

[voxberry]

well ... I think it is a CMSMS question as it does use SMARTY ... and I was trying to learn how to get vars from the url as CMSMS does ...

I was not asking for a basic php method to read the vars from the url . (like $var = $_GET['var']; / $var = $_POST['var']

I was asking how one would do that INSIDE CMSMS, maybe using the SMARTY engine .

[dipper88]

I too had the same problem and solved it the following way

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{php}
$this->assign('var',$_GET['var']);
{/php}

There might be some way to have the code look more uniform, but at least this one's working

[voxberry]

well.... something like that .
only I'm looking to do this inside a /function.dblist.php file, and $this->assign('var',$_GET['var']); does not work outside content .

anyway .. yup, i'm looking for something like that .

My main problem is that using simple $_GET would be vurnerable and I was thinking that i can somehow use smarty for a safer var passing .

thanks anyway . anymore input on this is welcomed .

[voxberry]

well....

i donno how I made this work and I still donno how good it works, but here is what works for me :

     $smarty->assign('VAR',$_GET['VAR']);
     $VAR= $smarty->get_template_vars('VAR');

and I think with pretty urls the security problem is less of a problem .