Form Input from Link

Question

Hello,

So I have:

<input type="text" id="keyword" placeholder="placeholder" value="" />

What is the best way to go about defining the value based on the link?

ie.

http://mysite.com/valueplacer?=thisisthevalue

Does this:

<input type="text" id="keyword" placeholder="placeholder" value="thisisthevalue" />

Thanks!

Answer 1

<input type="text" id="keyword" placeholder="placeholder" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['q']); ?>" />

This is assuming that you are going to place a q there in the query string, as the key for the variable. This means the query string will look like

http://mysite.com/valueplacer?q=thisisthevalue

The htmlspecialchars() is for security.

If you actually do want your URL to look like that, you will need to parse $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].

I would not recommend doing it like that. Just use GET params as how they were intended.