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How to pass parameter in wordpress url?

How can I pass a URL string from one page to another?

  • I'm trying to pass a parameter to all consecutive URLs thereafter in the same domain. The entered URL will be something like http://www.mailninja.co.uk/?source=doug but onclick the URL becomes http://www.mailninja.co.uk/signup rather thanhttp://www.mailninja.co.uk/signup?source=doug Any ideas how to achieve this?

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    That's the typical use case for cookies. When getting source=doug in the URL, you set a cookie called "source" to "dough". That information will then be sent back to your site with every request, without being visible in the URL. Unless of course the browser blocks the cookie, but that is rare these days. Alternatively, you can use URL rewriting - that is, when you see source=doug in the URL, make sure all URLs on the page are generated to also include source=doug (or you use search&replace on the finished page - that is messy, but allows for the page content be cached or static).

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Hi I need more detail. Sounds to me like you want to store the source in the session or cookie. You do not mention if this is client or server side, either or both. Do you perhaps mean Single Signon? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1043111/transparent-user-session-over-several-sites-single-sign-on-single-sign-off/1057199#1057199

Michel Plungjan

Looks like you are missing the session data per user. 1. Given a user has a cookie for your domain and you have corresponding session data on the server. 2. When you receive the request "http://www.mailninja.co.uk/?source=doug" you will receive it with a cookie in HTTP headers. Then you might be doing some processing and redirecting the user to " http://www.mailninja.co.uk/signup". This looks like a login page. Store the state information about the session that request with this cookie after login has to go the original one. 3. Now when you receive the login credentials along with the cookie. You verify the login and redirect the user to the one you want. You can do that using Javascript or through a <meta> tag. You have missed out on many critical information like which framework you are using, what kind of login you are expecting etc. Tips: 1. Install Wireshark and monitor the HTTP requests coming and going through this website, they will give you enough hint. 2. On the webserver / application server  e.g. Glassfish, Tomcat, Django etc. enable logging. 3. Ask on StackOverflow.

Ravi Arora

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