Hi all,

I was just wondering what is the best way to assign a certain value to a variable according to a specific parameter in the URL.

For example, let's say I'm tagging backlinks to be implemented on an external website in this way www.mysite.com/page?source=externalsitename. I'd like to give the value "externalsitename" to a variable $Source so that i can call it from within my page templates to create dynamic content. For example, by adapting the landing page subheader to state "You were redirected from $ReferralSiteName". Shall I start from something like this in Page_Controller ?

--
if ($_GET['source'])
{echo htmlentities($_GET['source']);}
else
{echo ucwords("Standard content");}
--

Thank you!

here is a basic example using an actiona nd an id through the URL...

_config.php

Director::addRules(100,array(
	'urlpage/$Action/$ID/$OtherID' => 'URLPage_Controller',
));

the page...

class URLPage extends Page {}

class URLPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

	static $allowed_actions = array(
		'urlaction',
	);

	function urlaction() {
		$Params = $this->getURLParams();
		$id = Convert::raw2sql($Params['ID']); //the prevents against nasty - non-int stuff
		
		//do stuff using $id
		return $id;
	}
}

Here is an alternative if you do not want to add anything in your _config.php file...

class SomePage extends Page {

// Page code here 

}

class SomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

	function index($request) {
		// if $_GET['source'] exists, do something else, otherwise return normal page
		if($source = $request->getVar('source')) {
			
			// do stuff with $source here
			// eg. below

			return $this->customise(array(
				'Content' => 'You were redirected from: ' . $source
			));
		}
		else {
			return $this;
		}
	}
}

Hi guys, thanks for the swift reply. I'll check it out today and see if I can get it to work!

Just to update my post -
I only included the _config.php to show how it normally is setup - you only need that when you have *different* parameters to those I've show... bad example I guess!