Passing a variable between pages.

I’d be interested to hear what methods people might use to achieve this.

Basically what I want to do is, ( in good old fashioned php ) this....

Have a link to another page with as in..



then on page2.php



Obviously I want to do more than that, but that is the general principle, and if possible ( probably pushing it ) while using friendly urls.

( a form with a hidden field might be an option? )

TIA

hi,

your syntax is wrong



snippet code:


:-)

My syntax is usually wrong on first attempt.

Ok, I couldn’t seem to pass a variable once I turned on Friendly Url’s, what would be the procedure there?

( and thanks )

If friendly URLs are turned on, you need to use ?. If they are not, you need to use &.

This is because without friendly URLs, you want index.php?id=xx&mykey=myvalue. With friendly URLs you want mypage.html?mykey=myvalue.

In a snippet you can have a check for the status of friendly URLs and use a variable that will resolve to ? or & in generating the URL.

When you want to generate a link from a snippet or plugin just use the makeUrl API call. The API call will take all the friendly URL settings into account automatically.

Example:
$modx->makeUrl(id_of_page_to_link_to, ’’, ’name=me&something=different’);