How to check the query string?

[taylort]

I would like to check the query string within a page to see if the status variable has been passed and, if so, what it's value is.

Here's the full path: http://domain.com/page/?status=success

I would to know that "status" has indeed been passed and was a success. If it's just

http://domain.com/page

Then I know that there's not a status passed. There must be an incredibly easy way to do this; I'm simply not familiar with PHP. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

[Duketown]

taylort,

You can use the echo function in PHP. Just after you updated a table you could have the following:

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echo "DEBUG: result = ".$db->ErrorMsg()."<br/>  ".$db->sql."<br/>"; die();

This will display what the actual query was against the database. Take special care of the last part: die() as  this stops your application immediatly.
Showing if a parameter has been passed. CMSMS normaly uses the $params to pass the parameters. This is an array of values. A nifty option is to use:

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debug_display($params);

This will show the values of the array in a nice readable way.
Simple way could also be:

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echo ('Status parameter contains: '.$params['status']);

Duketown

[calguy1000]

I would like to check the query string within a page to see if the status variable has been passed and, if so, what it's value is.

Here's the full path: http://domain.com/page/?status=success

I would to know that "status" has indeed been passed and was a success. If it's just

http://domain.com/page

Then I know that there's not a status passed. There must be an incredibly easy way to do this; I'm simply not familiar with PHP. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

This is basic PHP stuff..... if the variable was passed by GET, the variable will be in $_GET.  if the variable was passed by POST the value will be in $_POST.  If you don't care which method the variable was passed by check $_REQUEST.

[taylort]

This seems outrageously simple but I'm having more trouble than anything. Here's the very simple code that I've added to the top of one of my pages:

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{if $_REQUEST['status'] eq 'success'}
  Thank you for submitting your information!
{else}
  Please submit your information.
{/if}

No matter what I pass in the query string it will display the "Please submit your information." I know it's likely something simple I need to change.

Any suggestions?

[calguy1000]

You can't mix smarty and php variables in that way.

try:  {if isset($smarty.request.status) && $smarty.request.status eq 'success')}

[taylort]

You can't mix smarty and php variables in that way.

try:  {if isset($smarty.request.status) && $smarty.request.status eq 'success')}

You are the man! That fixed it - thanks so much for the help everyone.

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

feel free to add it in the wiki. You can contribute with your forum account.
Happy new year

Pierre M.