Unable to append query to url ending like /?user

Question

www.something.com/?user, where "user" is a php file, is there any way to add query string parameters to it?

Have failed with:

www.something.com/?user?id=1

www.something.com/?user&id=1

www.something.com/?user/id=1

Have seen this topic: Get URL query string

but this is not exactly what I'm after...thanks

the `?` in the url separates the path and the parameters. if you want many parameters, you have to use `&` to separate them. `www.something.com/?user&id=1` is perfectly valid. this url has two parameters : `user` with no value and `id` with value `1` — ᴄʀᴏᴢᴇᴛ, Jul 02 '18 at 15:26
Do you have some sort of routing going on to convert `user` into a valid php file name? — RiggsFolly, Jul 02 '18 at 15:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '18 at 16:38

The way to do it with the php extension intact would be:

www.something.com/user.php?id=1

You then use:

$userID = $_GET['id'];

If you want to drop the PHP extension, you can do this with a rewrite in the htaccess: This is pretty generic as it depends on your web-server, but something like:

RewriteRule ^www\.something\.com/user\.php$ /www.something.com/user?&%{QUERY_STRING}

Or you could just drop using the PHP extension on all of the files to keep it neat using something like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

This will rewrite all of your php extensions so this:

something.com/someFileName

Will automagically be read as

something.com/someFileName.php

To which you can still use:

something.com/someFileName?someQueryParameter=someValue

Unable to append query to url ending like /?user

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