How to get $_REQUEST[] through URL in wordpress .

Question

Hi I have a problem in my site on which am working on localhost. I am using pretty urls in my localhost.I have custom page templates for all the sites every page has a different header and footer and the content in it.

I used

<div class="btn_container"><a href="issues/?page_id=1038" class="btn_1" title="Food"></a></div>
<div class="btn_container"><a href="index.php?cat=155" class="btn_3"  title="Health"></a></div> 

The Problem I have to get request parameters in wordpress and query the db against these request query string parameters. And also it does not route to this page template.

I have hard-coded URL like in the above divs.

Please help

Answer 1

A page template is assigned to the page through the admin panel: 1. Go to the admin panel 2. click on pages 3. choose the page you have created 4. choose the template on the right hand side.

Simply linking to it does not assign the template to the page like your example is showing.

Answer 2

Could you simply grab the link id from the URL like

$link_id = $_GET['page_id']; // this would equal 1038 from your example link