[support] Parsing QUERY_STRING

[Scott]

page_example.module was exactly what I was after.  I do have a copy of
Pro Drupal Development, 2nd edition but I haven't gotten very far into
it yet.  I'd seen references to menuing but hadn't followed them up
because I wasn't using a "menu".  Anyway, thanks again for the clue - a
significant advancement in understanding drupal for me.

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 07:58 -0800, Metzler, David wrote:
> This sounds to me like you're trying to write a module, yes?  If that's
> true what your're doing is easier than you might think, as drupal does
> much of the url parsing for you. 
> 
> Understand that if you write your function as 
> 
> Function mymodule($index) 
> {
>   sql code goes here. 
> } 
> 
> And you register that function on a menu path 'viewform', that function
> will get $index as a parameter already, that is index will already have
> 'wcab10' as the index. 
> 
> Would suggest getting a copy of the drupal pro development book and also
> looking at the developer docs at http://api.drupal.org and more
> specifically at http://api.drupal.org/api/function/page_example_baz/6
> 
> Good luck, 
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 5:19 PM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] Parsing QUERY_STRING
> 
> I have posted at http://drupal.org/node/361193 a request for information
> but have yet to hear anything back.  So, I thought I'd try here.  I am
> rewriting a web site from php4 to drupal 6.  One important section of
> the old site uses QUERY_STRING to pass a parameter thusly:
> "../viewform/wcab10"
> The string "viewform" represents an actual page but "wcab10" is an index
> value.  I'm trying to figure out how to do this with drupal.  So far it
> looks as if I need to create nodes for all possible index field values.
> Rather I wish to land on viewform (node/xxx) and use "wcab10" as a
> parameter for a module (select * from table where index_field =
> "wcab10").
> 
> 
> 
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