"Appending an url with appendages that were already in the previous url?" That's the most confusing title -- I know. But I can't think of a better way to explain it.
Maybe the below example will help.
I have URL 1: http://example.com/?value=xyz&stuff=abc
If someone clicks on a link within the page, can I pass along the appended values?
ie: http://www.example.org/?value=xyz&stuff=abc
Thanks and sorry for being such a noob.
These appendages you ask about is the actual so called query part of an URI:
<scheme>://<authority><path>?<query>
foo://example.com:8042/over/there?name=ferret#nose
\_/ \______________/\_________/ \_________/ \__/
| | | | |
scheme authority path query fragment
Taken from: 3. Syntax Components (RFC 3986) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#page-16
You then need a helper function that is append the (optional) <query> to an existing <scheme>://<authority><path> part. I ignore the <fragment> for this exmaple, as it would needed to be added at the end and I want to leave something as an exercise:
function href_append_query($href)
{
$query = isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])
? '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']
: ''
;
$query = strtr(
$query, [
'"' => '"',
"'" => ''',
'&' => '&'
]
);
return $href . $query;
}
And it's usage:
<a href="<?=href_append_query('http://step2.com/')?>Some link</a>
This little function will ensure that the exisitng QUERY_STRING which can be obtained via $_SERVERDocs is encoded for HTML output.
If links are built with PHP, just append the original query string to them:
<a href="http://step2.com/?<?php echo $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>">Some link</a>
In JavaScript, just append the value of window.location.search to all the links you need to 'pass' the query string.
You could also use js/jquery to append the existing query string to each link on the page:
$(function() {
$('a').each(function() {
link = $(this).attr('href');
query = window.location.search;
if (link.indexOf('?') !== -1 && query !== '') {
query = query.replace('?','&');
}
$(this).attr('href',link+query);
});
});
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']