I have an admin panel which uses the admin.php?page=X system to condense all the admin features in to one easy to use page. Although, I also have a Pagination system on the admins 3rd page which also uses the '?' in the link. This doesn't seem to work? The link for instance is:
admin.php?page=3?pn=2
But, this doesn't show pagination '2' this just shows the original page 3 of the admin panel?
Is this because you cannot have more than 1 '?' in a link or is there a way to change this?
Multiple querystring parameters are separated by an ampersand &:
admin.php?page=3&pn=2
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On my site, people can link to topics with buttons I made. Those buttons are putting out a (look: http://....) or (look: (link without http://) on the textarea and when they submit it, the hyperlink shows in their post. That is very nice, but if I fetch this data to show them their last posts, I don't get the hyperlink, but just the plain text. So (look: http://....) does not lead to a link...
I have seen in phpmyadmin that it is stored as plain text, so I can understand that, but how can I make those things hyperlinks and the rest of the text (the no-links) just plain?
Try using htmlentities to convert those hyperlinks before saving them in your database. You can then use html_entity_decode when getting the data from the database.
Please take into account the aforementioned comments about security issues. You have to sanitize data the user inputed data before you further process the data.
To answer your question. Store the links in a separate column of your table. Then fletch your links to the user via PHP - I guess you are using MySQL in combination with PHP - like you do with the posts. If you want to create a link you need to use the anchor HTML tag. E.g. Name link.
Does anyone know if it's possible to extract the URL and if a value is found within the URL to display/hide something?
For instance, if I have a navigation bar that I want to only display for pages that contain 'copier' and I have URL aliases setup, can I setup Views module (or something like that) to check the URL for the 'copier' value and if it's found to display the navigation? If so, how would I go about doing that?
I know there can't be duplicate URL aliases but if say I had them as:
node/Copier
node/Copier-training
Could I check that URL and see if copier is present, and if it is display the navigation assoicated with copier?
I'm not really familiar with Views.
Not sure if this answers your question or not, the mention of Views is throwing me off a bit, but I believe all you need work with is a Block. You put your navigation into the Block, and then set the "Visilibity Settings" to be
node/*copier*
and set "Show block on specific pages" to "Only the listed pages".
This would then show the block on any page with copier in the URL, however this would only work for URLs of the type node/blahblahblah, if you wanted it to also show on say a URL such as blog/copier-training you would have to add another line to the Visibility Settings of the Block
node/*copier*
blog/*copier*
and also for any subsequent drill-downs also, for instance say blog/richie/copier-training would require
node/*copier*
blog/*copier*
blog/richie/*copier*
alternatively you could write a whole load of wildcarded options that go as deep as your site URLs may go
*/*copier*
*/*/*copier*
*/*/*/*copier*
ad infinitum
which is probably better...
If you do want to show a View within the Block you can use the following PHP
<?php
//load the view by name
$view = views_get_view('sample_view');
//output the view
print views_build_view('embed', $view);
?>
Hope this helped.
I am trying to simulate the functionality of a form in this website, but don't know exactly what the post URL looks like.
The link to the website is here:
selfservice.mypurdue.purdue.edu/prod/bwckschd.p_disp_dyn_sched >> then click on Spring2013. The code I am trying to replicate is the one that happens when the user clicks Course Search and selects CS from the subject list.
You can look at the HTML file to see the values they use in their POST command. How do I see what the values look like once the button is clicked, as I am trying to replicate this and set the variables to the same values. What I need is a URL to be shown with all of the variables set to their respective values. I understand this can be done with a GET command. Can someone tell me how to extract this URL for me so I can proceed?
I edited the page using chrome inspector and changed the form action to GET - this is the URL that was displayed.
https://selfservice.mypurdue.purdue.edu/prod/bwckschd.p_get_crse_unsec?term_in=201320&sel_subj=dummy&sel_day=dummy&sel_schd=dummy&sel_insm=dummy&sel_camp=dummy&sel_levl=dummy&sel_sess=dummy&sel_instr=dummy&sel_ptrm=dummy&sel_attr=dummy&sel_subj=CS&sel_crse=&sel_title=&sel_schd=%25&sel_from_cred=&sel_to_cred=&sel_camp=%25&sel_ptrm=%25&sel_instr=%25&sel_sess=%25&sel_attr=%25&begin_hh=0&begin_mi=0&begin_ap=a&end_hh=0&end_mi=0&end_ap=a
However, this URL dosen't resolve as the script is obviously expecting POST data.
I have an email digest that is sent daily to users of my website and contains links to things on the site so that they can easily get right in and start interacting from their email. Trouble is, if they click more than one link, they're going to be opening more than one browser and the non-technical user might not catch that and end up having to close a bunch of tabs/browsers when they're done on the site. I want all the links in the email digest to be opened in the same window/tab.
I know that if you have an href you can set target=my_window and the links will open in that window. I'm wondering if there's a URL parameter that can be used instead of editing the a tag.
No. I don’t know of any browser (or other user agent) that associates any special behaviours with link query strings. The query string is for the server receiving the HTTP request to deal with.
As you say in your question, the target attribute is the method for controlling (or at least suggesting) what window the link should open in.
Can you use the window.open method?
Reference: window.open(url, name, features, replace);
It allows a browser window to be named, and thus reused when clicking on new links that are formatted to work with the window.open syntax.
Example: link
Status Update: Note you can search for many window.open(); Online Generators to help build the look of the opened window. It's important to test the desired look in all browsers, as the Address Bar in each browser is rendered differently.
The short answer is no. This behavior you are talking about is strictly client side, controlled by the browser. The application running on the web server is responsible for reacting to the query string.
Do you not have control over the template of the e-mails that are sent? It should be trivial to add the target to the appropriate anchors.
You can use PHP to catch custom URL parameters.
Say you have a link like:
www.yoursite.com/somepage.php?title=Some Page Title Here
The paramater string in the URL starts with ?something=somevalue and can be chained with the & symbol (e.g. ?something=somevalue&somethingelse=someothervalue) etc.
You can then ad this PHP to the top of your page:
<?php $title = $_GET['title']; ?>
Then for your title tag put the following:
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
You would add another variable with the value of the param for each param you want to pass in to the page. But for what you're trying to do, the above code will work.
I have a website in which I have many categories, many sub-categories within each one and many products within each of those. Since the URLs are very user-unfriendly (they contain a GUID!!!), I would like to use a method which I think is called URL Masking. For example instead of going to catalogue.aspx?ItemID=12343435323434243534, they would go to notpads.htm. This would display the same as going to catalogue.aspx?ItemID=12343435323434243534 would display, somehow.
I know I could do this by creating a file for each category / sub-category (individual products cannot be accessed individually as it is a wholesale site - customers cannot purchase directly from the site). This would be a lot of work as the server would have to update each relevant file whenever a category / sub-category / product visibility changes, or a description changes, a name changes... you get the idea...
I have tried using server-side includes but that doesn't like it when a .aspx file is specified in an html file.
I have also tried using an iframe set to 100% width / height and absolutely positioned left 0 and top 0. This works quite well, but I know there are reasons you should not use this method such as some search engines not coping with it well. I also notice that the title of the "parent" page (notepads.htm) is not the title set in the iframe (logically this is correct - but another issue I need to solve if I go ahead and use this method).
Can anyone suggest another way I could do this, or tell me whether I am going along the right lines by using iframes? Thanks.
Regards,
Richard
PS If this is the wrong name for what I am trying to do then please let me know what it actually is so I can rename / retag it.
Look into URL Rewrites. You can create a regular expression and map it to your true url. For example
http://mysite.com?product=banana
could map to
http://mysite.com?guid=lakjdsflkajkfj3lj3l4923892&asfd=9234983920894893
I believe you mean URL Rewriting.
IIS 7+ has a rewrite module built in that you can use for this kind of thing.
URL Rewriters solve the problem you are describing - When someone requests page A, display page B - in a general way.
But yours is not a general requirement. You seem to have a finite uuid-to-shortname mapping requirement. This is the kind of thing you could or should set up in your app, yourself, rather than inserting a new piece of machinery into your system.
Within a default .aspx page, You'd simply do a lookup on the shortname from the url in a persistent table stored somewhere, and then call Server.Transfer() to the uuid-named page associated to that shortname.
It should be easy to prototype this.