# (php) retrieving url variable

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**Created:** [July 10, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/115640 "2004-07-10T07:14:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![toille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@toille](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/toille)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-retrieving-url-variable/115640/1 "2004-07-10T07:14:32Z")

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I am working on a site with lots of videos, but i only want to use one file. I want it to leave the SRC as a variable and load the file variable from the url, like: videoplayer.php?file=file.wmv … can anyone help me with how to do this?