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1. aeriph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm sure this must be fairly simple but can't figure out how to do it.

   I have a page with it's own template, say mysite.com/custom. This page is handled by custom.php.

   How can I set it up so that mysite.com/custom/anything is handled by custom.php?var=anything

   I just need whatever comes after custom/ passing to custom.php as a string, no matter what it is.

2. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If say your trying to find a variable being passed to it

   http://yourdomain.tld/custom/?somevar=weirdo

   There are actually several different methods to do this, you can find and validate the $_REQUEST

   for example:

   if (isset($_REQUEST['somevar'])) $somevar = esc_attr($_REQUEST['somevar']);

   Or the WP prefered method where you check if the get_query_var has it.
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_query_var

   I just do this:
   

   if (isset($wp_query->query_vars['somevar'])) $somevar = esc_attr($wp_query->query_vars['somevar']);

3. aeriph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for your response. Sorry, I didn't explain what I meant properly.

   The problem is not for custom.php to find variables that have been passed to it. It's getting mysite.com/custom/any-random-stuff/with-slashes-etc to be handled by custom.php?var=any-random-stuff/with-slashes-etc

4. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ah you need to create some rewrite rules to handle those

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite

   This allows you to create a new ruleset to use with custom permalinks

5. aeriph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks again. I'm still a bit unclear on the usage of WP Rewrite. Do the functions there need to be run once, to update wordpress' rewrite rules? Where should they be run from?

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