I’m having trouble passing a variable ‘tag’ to forum.php using $_GET, maybe because permalinks are enabled?

For example, when I do this URL:

http://mysite.com/bbpress/forum.php?id=999&tag=444

It just redirects to forum 999 and ignores the tag value, so I get:

http://mysite.com/bbpress/forum-name/

I’m using Nicer Permalinks plugins if that matters.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

You can’t pass custom variables unless you don’t change the .htaccess.

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

You can’t pass custom variables unless you don’t change the .htaccess.

[@3sixty Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks, but Yes, you can do this without changing htaccess. I just finally got this to work.

I think ‘tag’ is somehow a protected GET variable. I changed it to tag2 and the variable passes fine:

URL: http://mysite.com/bbpress/forum-name/?tag2=333

php: echo $_GET

Output: 333

[@3sixty Member 13 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks, but Yes, you can do this without changing htaccess. I just finally got this to work.

I think ‘tag’ is somehow a protected GET variable. I changed it to tag2 and the variable passes fine:

URL: http://mysite.com/bbpress/forum-name/?tag2=333

php: echo $_GET

Output: 333

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

Sweet.

[@zaerl Participant 13 years, 11 months ago]

Sweet.