By ahotel on

I want a Drupal page to display this information:

Hello Peter. You live in New York.

I can call the page like this:

www.mysite.com/showinfo.htm?Peter?New York

What code do I use in the Drupal page so that it shows the person's information?

Kindly show me how one can do this.

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antoniotorres’s picture

antoniotorres commented

I'm not entirely sure of what you're asking here.

Are you trying to pass variables to GET on the URL? drupal is a bit different.

what do you mean "the persons information" their profile information?

what are we working with here, be as explicit as you can please? :D

ahotel’s picture

ahotel commented

In another program (outside of Drupal) I store a person's first name and city. They click a button in this program to go to my Drupal website.

I would like to take them to a page in my website that shows them their name and city.
So I made the button click do this:

www.mysite.com/showinfo.htm?Peter?New York

I can change this if required.

I don't know how to show these parameters on a Drupal page. How do I use the information and display it on a page?

I am a novice at html and php, but if you could show me how to do my simple example, that will be great.

So how do I make a Drupal page say:
Hello Peter. You live in New York.

Thanks

vikramy’s picture

vikramy commented

Do like this..
Imagine you are sending that to node/1 of your drupal site..

www.mysite.com/node/1?name=Peter&place=New York

So in body of node/1 write a small php code..

//Check for isset($_GET[""]) if you want.. 

echo "Hello ".$_GET["name"].". You live in ".$_GET["place"];
ahotel’s picture

ahotel commented

Thanks, that was helpful. I got it working OK.

I couldn't work out how to use isset(). Can you show how to use it for the example above?

anilo’s picture

anilo commented

if(isset($_GET['name']) && isset($_GET['place']))

Try double quotes if needed.

john morahan’s picture

john morahan commented

To prevent this being a security hole you could use check_plain():

echo 'Hello '. check_plain($_GET['name']) .'. You live in '. check_plain($_GET['place']);

Or you could use t() and take advantage of Drupal's translation facility as well as the security benefits:

echo t('Hello @name. You live in @place.', array('@name' => $_GET['name'], '@place' => $_GET['place']));
ahotel’s picture

ahotel commented

Thanks all for the helpful suggestions.

This is what I have so far.

www.mysite.com/node/1?name=Peter&place=New York

<?php

$name = check_plain($_GET['name']);
$place = check_plain($_GET['place']);

echo "Hello: ".$name;
print "<br/>";
echo "You live in: ".$place;
print "<br/>";
print "<br/>";

echo "Thanks for confirming your information.";

?>

NOTE: I don't know how to implement isset(). How would I use isset() in the code above?
Also any suggested changes to the above code are welcome.

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented 

if(isset($_GET['name']))
  $name = check_plain($_GET['name']);
else
  $name = 'anonymus';

if(isset($_GET['place']))
  $place = check_plain($_GET['place']);
else
  $name = 'nowere';


echo "Hello: ".$name;
print "<br/>";
echo "You live in: ".$place;
print "<br/>";
print "<br/>";

echo "Thanks for confirming your information.";
ahotel’s picture

ahotel commented

Thanks Tomark - that works fine.