# How do u do blah.php?name=

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**Created:** [April 4, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-u-do-blah-php-name/106283 "2004-04-04T04:05:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Soul814](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Soul814](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soul814)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2004, 4:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-u-do-blah-php-name/106283/1 "2004-04-04T04:05:59Z")

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any tutorials explaining it? is it used to link pages?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-u-do-blah-php-name/106283/2 "2004-04-07T00:50:29Z")

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It’s easy

Um I know how to do it in flash and php

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-u-do-blah-php-name/106283/3 "2004-04-07T01:47:11Z")

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All you would do is have an address like say…  
[www.site.com/section/page.php?id=5](http://www.site.com/section/page.php?id=5)  
then you would retrieve the variable 5 by going like this:

```php
$id = $_GET['id'];

```

then **$id** would be equal to 5. This is used often with databases where the id is the number of the row and all that information is displayed.  
[edit]I just realized the link to the other page, so yeah, you have two examples now[/edit]