Generally we don't add functions to replace simple one-line PHP 
expressions.

  $url .= strstr($url,'?')?"?foo=$foo":"&foo=$foo";

-Rasmus

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Juan Alonso wrote:

> Hello list,
> 
> I find often myself wanting to append a variable to an unknown url. The 
> problem is that you don't know if you should append the var with ? or 
> with &. Do you think it would be useful to have a builtin function that 
> would do this automatically?
> 
> example code as I do it actually:
> <?php
> $foo       = mt_rand();
> $separator = (ereg('?', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) ? '&' : '?';
> $url       = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'].$separator.'foo='.$foo;
> ?>
> 
> 
> example code with the new version:
> <?php
> $foo = mt_rand();
> $url = urlappendvar($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], 'foo', $foo);
> ?>
> 
> 
> I use it quite frequently so I thought it could be useful to have such 
> functionality builtin.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- 
> Juan Alonso Hernández
> Desarrollo, Seguridad y Sistemas
> 
> www.art3mis.com | (34) 91 530 16 33
> 
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