Passing a Variable to a Redirected Page? Possible?

PHP
1

I have a page that is redirected - let’s say for the sake of argument that it’s the following:

www.website.com/yellow

Which, through the magic of htaccess, behind the scenes shows www.website.com/showcolor.php?id=yellow

Now, say I wanted to pass an additional variable, like a code?

www.website.com/yellow?code=123

Is this possible? And if so… how do I do it?

and just so you know - there is no trailing .php in url.

2

If your rewrite rules have QSA then it should work fine.

3

Thank you! That did it.

4

OK - an add on to this. I’ve currently got htaccess configured as so:

RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9]+) properties/showprop.php?id=$1 [QSA]

But now when I try add UTM variables in email newsletters, it serves up broken pages. Any thoughts on how to make it all coexist peacefully?

5

Does anyone know how to make mod_rewrite rules and UTM tracking codes coexist peacefully?

6

Hello bvarvel!

I tried your use case. I have this .htaccess at the root of my site:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^properties/([0-9]+) properties/showprop.php?id=$1 [QSA]

And I created the page “/properties/showprop.php”

In “showprop.php”, I have this code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Show prop:
<?
	echo "id: " . $_GET["id"] . "<br>";
	echo "UTM: " . $_GET["UTM"];
?>
</body>
</html>

When I call the URL http://localhost/properties/11?UTM=10

The page prints out the expected result:

Show prop: id: 11
UTM: 10

So, either I didn’t understand what was your question or there’s something else preventing it from working.