How to pass multiple values of a variable through a URL

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mickburkejnr picture mickburkejnr · Aug 12, 2012 · Viewed 84.5k times · Source

I've an application that I'm building, and I'm stuck at a certain point.

I'm trying to pass a variable that has multiple values. So my URL will look like:

localhost/report.php?variable=value1, value2, value3

Problem is I'm not sure how I can do this. The variables are to be used to retrieve data from a database. I'm using PHP and no Javascript.

Any help would be great!

EDIT:
Here is the HTML I have in my page where the variables are selected:

<select name="types" size="19" multiple>
    <option value="all" selected>All Types</option>
    <option value="book" selected>Books</option>
    <option value="cd" selected>CD</option>
</select>

So a user could select Books and CD, and I would need to pass these two values in the "types" variable.

Answer

jp2code picture jp2code · Aug 12, 2012

Use &

localhost/report.php?variable=value1&val2=value2&val3=value3

Is that what you are after?

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