How to achieve a simple re-direct to a GET request?

Question

I have a page that does a re-direct as such, following the guidelines from this SO Post.

header("Location: http://www.fivefoo.com?uid=johnny");
die();

This small php file is located here in index.php of course.

http://www.fivefoo.com/johnny

What I did was just add on a query to the re-direct

?uid=johnny.

First and main question. Am I allowed to to do this?

Secondly, where do I retrieve the query values. My guess, would be the $_GET global.

It's commonplace to have a `/` before the `?` in this case btw. Also make sure to escape whatever you use from `$_GET`. — Ja͢ck, Jul 29 '13 at 23:14
Depends on how you use it. `urlencode()` would suffice here I think. — Ja͢ck, Jul 29 '13 at 23:22

Simon Forsberg · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-29T23:10:36.260

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Yes you are allowed to do this (why shouldn't you be?)

Yes, you can get the query values from the $_GET superglobal array. More specifically, $_GET['uid'] will contain the text 'johnny' (without the quotes of course).

edited Jul 29 '13 at 23:10

answered Jul 29 '13 at 23:04

Simon Forsberg

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I'm not use to seeing the query directly after the domain, that was on thing, I was wondering about. – api implementor - johnny Jul 29 '13 at 23:06
@johnnysirocco `http://www.fivefoo.com?uid=johnny` will be the same as `http://www.fivefoo.com/index.php?uid=johnny` (index.php could also be index.html, or any other handler file either put there or defined in .htaccess). That's perfectly fine. – Simon Forsberg Jul 29 '13 at 23:09
@johnnysirocco Some time gotta be the first :) Please mark answer as accepted if it helped. – Simon Forsberg Jul 29 '13 at 23:11

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 29 '13 at 23:08

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Yes, you can do this.
Yes, the $_GET is used for this, so $_GET['uid'] in your example would return 'johnny'.

More info here

answered Jul 29 '13 at 23:08

How to achieve a simple re-direct to a GET request?

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