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Hi, i am a semi noob in php, i know my way around and have written lotsa hacks... Now im gonna write my own php website from scratch..now then... i got a book, and all the web help possible but i need the basics... which... none of the above have helped me with. Now my special request, is that someone explain to me how does php pass variables around... i mean how does it work when you click a link for example and it's like /index.php?topic=yourtopic&something=something This is cruacial but unfortunately i have little or no idea what that means or how it works. Excuse my ignorance and thanks again.

It works the same way as any other programming language. If you don't understand this concept then you aren't ready to write a whole site from scratch. You need to get the basics under your belt first, or you're going to write very ugly and inefficient code. I don't know what book you got but you need one on basic programming concepts.

Check out http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php.

To get variables off the query string depends on your PHP setup but $myLocalVariable = $_GET['queryStringVariable'] should work on most current PHP setups.

-dubz

Thanks for that link i think i answered my question.