Friendly URLs with Arguments

Apologies ahead of time since I have stumbled by this problem on the forums before, but I haven’t found it again in the past two days of searching.

Is there some already existing snippet/variable/whatever that will identify whether a URL should be seperated from its arguments by a question mark(?) as opposed to an ampersand(&)?



Our sandbox doesn’t match our live server, and switching back and forth would be a hassle. I figure that it’d be simple enough to write a snippet to check if FURLs are active, but if it exists already, why bother?
Thanks.

Technically the FriendlyURL is taken care of by apache’s mod rewrite of index.php?id=xx, so passing it another ? might break it’s delicate brain. I have passed some _GET parameters in a snippet before using [~[*id*]~]&param=value&param2=value2 and apache correctly rewrites it according to your friendly URL / Friendly Alias Path settings.

-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist DFPA.

So apache will automatically go from to ? If so, I feel really stupid.

Technically, the URL will have the ?, but since it is being rewritten by mod_rewrite, you will only see the additional parameters appended afterwards. I’ve found absolutely no problem with doing it that way (e.g. [~[*id*]~]&param=foobar), despite the apparent lack of a ? in the final URL displayed to the user. Using a ? will break it if you don’t have FURL’s enabled, otherwise, that will work fine as well.

Thanks for the clarification. I feel foolish.