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Nov 27.2004

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<li><a href=”{baseurl}/index.php?action=page_display&amp;PageID=2″ title=””>Contact Us</a></li>

We are calling index.php. And sending it an action=page_display etc. But what is the “&amp”?

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@GeorgeJohnsonNov 27.2004 — action=page_display&PageID=2

action is a variable, and in the target script you would reference $_GET['action'] and its value would equal "page_display"

THe & tells the script you are sending a 2nd variable after the first, which is "PageID" and you would get access to it at $_GET['PageID'] and its value would equal "2".

Whoever's script your are reading is using the PHP script language.
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@dennis99authorNov 27.2004 — Thanks, but what does the word "amp" do?
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@dennis99authorNov 27.2004 — The original code should have looked like:

index.php?action=page_display&amp;PageID=3

I don't know what happened to the word "Amp" when I posted the first time.
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@dennis99authorNov 27.2004 — The forum is removing the word "amp" when I post. Wonder why?
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@Paul_JrNov 27.2004 — &amp;amp; is an HTML entity, it represents the ampersand, &amp;.

The reason &amp;amp; showed up as &amp; is because HTML entities are parsed by this forum. So to show &amp;amp; you need to type &amp;amp;amp;.
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