Title: Passing HTTP Get parameters….
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# Passing HTTP Get parameters….

 *  Resolved [sdwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdwood/)
 * (@sdwood)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/)
 * Hi,
 * I might be barking up the wrong tree here…I currently have a standard PHP application
   that i am trying to migrate to WP. Chiefly this is so I can manage copy etc via
   the WP admin console. So i have some pages that currently take HTTP query params
   which the PHP code uses to lookup a MySQL database, pretty standard fare. So 
   lets say that i have some users and currently a page that looks like /users?userId
   =143523 is used to fetch the users details from the database and combine this
   with some static HTML output. What I think i would like to do is have a wordpress
   template page that will allow me to edit the copy for this page without having
   to FTP a new copy of the file onto the server.
 * So if i had a custom template that renders the copy i want and the links etc 
   i want in a profile page – along with the dymanic database driven content which
   i will get by looking up the database – is this possible ? For example maybe 
   i could create a new page called users, based on a template called profile-page.
 * I guess my question is basically can i do this in wordpress and how would I go
   about it ? It seems that trying to create a “page” manually for each user using
   the user-template custom template with a custom field would work, but this wont
   work when a new user signs up obviously, although i would also like the URL structure
   that WP would give me for this. Maybe there is something i am not understanding?
 * thanks,
    Steve.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/#post-1762025)
 * It is certainly possible to pass parameters in the URL with WP. I am doing that
   with categories. I use the code below to add the ‘stayincat’ parameter to the
   permalink for a page. The user clicks on the page title and the URL passes the
   stayincat parameter to the page template:
 *     ```
       <h2><a href="<?php echo htmlentities(add_query_arg('stayincat',get_query_var('cat'),get_permalink())) ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [sdwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdwood/)
 * (@sdwood)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/#post-1762224)
 * Hi,
 * Many thanks for your reply. I think the problem was that when i had a slug e.
   g.
 * mydomain.org/member/?memberId=1234
 * I was making URLs like member?foo=bar and it should be member/foo=bar.
 * Thanks,
    Steve.
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/#post-1762226)
 * > I was making URLs like member?foo=bar and it should be member/foo=bar.
 * Did you have a typo in the line above? It should be member/?foo=bar
 * If your problem is solved, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this 
   topic ‘Resolved’.
 *  Thread Starter [sdwood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sdwood/)
 * (@sdwood)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/#post-1762227)
 * Yes – a typo – thans very much for your help.
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/passing-http-get-parameters/#post-1762229)
 * You are welcome. Now, please use the dropdown at top right to mark this topic‘
   Resolved’.

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