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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 ?

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

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 .

I too had the same problem and solved it the following way There might be some way to have the code look more uniform, but at least this one's working

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 .

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 .