Query String question from Novice to Ninja book

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On page 119, last paragraph, of the PHP & MySQL Novice to Ninja Edition 5, Kevin explained that if you use a question mark in the action=“?” of the form tag, it will not show in the URL. I use Kevin’s archive code and it display the querystring?

I am using PHP version 5.3 on www.ipage.com

Does anyone know why it still show the querystring in the URL?

Thanks,

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Which version of the code are you using? What browser are you using? What is your URL before and after submitting the form?

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I am not sure I follow what you mean by what version of the code I am using? I am using PHP 5.3

I am using FF.

before submitting: http://www.website.com/addjoke/?addjoke

after submitting: http://www.website.com/addjoke/

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Then… it did exactly what it said it would do. There’s no query string on your “after submitting” URL.

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Oh, I thought it would not have any querystring at all, since we are using a $_POST instead of $_GET.

Thanks for the reply, i guess I will just research more on it.

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It… doesnt have a querystring. A querystring is defined as a ? followed by one or more variables and their values (if any) on the end of a URL.

“before submitting” it has a query string, containing one variable, “addjoke”, which has no value associated to it.
“after submitting” it doesnt.

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OK, make sense now. :smile:

Thanks for the help and have a great evening!

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