Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 03/06/05 15:41

Reinhart Viane wrote:
> I have a page which gets the id of a user from the url.
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> $_GET[id]
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>
>
> Now this id can have two forms:
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> Normal: page.php?id=1
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> Not so normal: page.php?id=whatever|1
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>
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> I can explode the second string so I only have the number (1). Explode ("|",
> $_GET(id))
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> But this command fails my query in case we have a normal value
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>
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> Is there a way to check the $_GET(id) to see if there is a | in it and in
> that case explode it?
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>
> Thx in advance.
>
> Reinhart
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>
$ret = explode('|', $_GET['id']);
if(count($ret) > 1) {
$id = $ret[1];
} else {
$id = $ret[0];
}

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