ezhttp

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 04/01/2007 by Balazs Halasy

Summary

Returns GET, POST and session variables.

Usage

ezhttp( name [, type [, check_existence ] ] )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
name	string	The HTTP variable that should be fetched.	Yes.
type	string	Source of variable. Default is is HTTP POST.	No.
check_existence	mixed	If the specified directive should be checked for existence.	No.

Returns

Variable value

Description

This operator makes it possible to inspect the contents of HTTP variables (POST, GET or session variables). The "type" parameter can be used to specify which type of variable that should be extracted. The following options are available:

post (POST variable)
get (GET variable)
session (session variable)

The "check_existence" parameter can be set to TRUE or the string "hasVariable" in order to check if a directive is actually set. In this case, the operator will return either TRUE or FALSE. Note that using the "ezhttp_hasvariable" operator is a better option.

Examples

Example 1

{ezhttp( 'search' )}

Returns the "search" POST variable.

Example 2

{ezhttp( 'image', 'get' )}

Returns the "image" GET variable.

Example 3

{ezhttp( 'user_id', 'session' )}

Returns the "user_id" session variable.

Contributors

Balazs Halasy Author 02/05/2004 Updated 04/01/2007
Bertrand Dunogier Commenter 11/14/2005
James Robertson Commenter 03/28/2006
patrick kaiser Commenter 04/07/2006
VaL Commenter 07/27/2006
Alimi Nabil Commenter 12/13/2005
vytis Commenter 07/14/2006
André Rømcke
Tobias V. Commenter 11/02/2007
Pike Commenter 08/18/2006
HL Commenter 04/29/2008

Comments (10 historical)

Written by readers of the earlier documentation sites, kept as they were.

Warnings

Bertrand Dunogier · 11/14/2005 10:26 am

It's a little too bad there's no way to avoid a warning when the variable we're fetching is not set ...
1. Re: Warnings
  
  James Robertson · 03/28/2006 11:27 pm
  
  You only recieve a warning? I get see an error. Most annoying!
  1. Re: Re: Warnings
    
    Patrick Kaiser · 04/07/2006 05:33 pm
    
    using 3.7.4 and getting an error as well. even testing for the existence fo a get/post var throws an error:
    {if ezhttp( 'myvar', 'get' ) } => returns false, but throws error
    the same with {if is_set( ezhttp( 'myvar', 'get' ) )}
    its a bug in my opinion..
2. Re: Warnings
  
  VaL · 07/27/2006 09:02 am
  
  you can use in 3.9 (trunk) like:
  ezhttp_hasvariable( 'getVar','get' )
  or
  ezhttp( 'getVar','get','hasVariable' )
Why not ?

Alimi Nabil · 12/13/2005 06:04 pm

It would be nice if the ezhttp operator could return all vars in the array specified. ezhttp(GET) would return all $_GET vars for example.
ezhttp is not working if caching is turned on.

vytis · 07/14/2006 12:44 pm

i put
{set-block scope=root variable=cache_ttl}0{/set-block}
to all templates, because in other way ezhttp will return the same value...
1. Re: ezhttp is not working if caching is turned on.
  
  André R. · 10/18/2007 10:34 am
  
  Or YOU should rethink your code instead of disable all cache, and recommend others to do so as well..
  If you use view parameters ('my.domain.com/my/url/(parameter)/value') instead of GET parameters, then the cache system will store different cached pages depending on the parameters. So that would be:
  * Better performance (cache is still on)
  * Nicer looking URL
  * Better indexable URL
  1. Re: Re: ezhttp is not working if caching is turned on.
    
    Tobias V. · 11/02/2007 09:36 am
    
    Actually, the cache system unfortunately does not store different cached pages, but returns the first requested version after cache cleaning for each parameter combination. Maybe this has something to do with the overall broken cache system in 3.10, but it does not work as expected and documented here.
or null

Pike · 08/18/2006 06:20 pm

Returns:
Variable value or null
test for non-existence using
{if not(ezhttp('test'))}
or
{if ezhttp('test')|null()}
How to get php $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] in a template ?

HL · 04/29/2008 09:21 am

it would be nice if there was something like:
ezhttp('referer', 'server')
I tried
{def $referer=ezhttp('LastAccessesURI','session')}
as well, but it returns the URL of the active page, not the refering...
What to do?

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