How do I get the ID value from a URL

Question

example.com:8080/browse?category=137 is my URL for a taxonomy category page.

How am I supposed to take the category ID (137) from that URI?

smile · Answer 1 · 2013-04-30 13:38:03Z

up vote 6 down vote

You can take that id from get array, try

print $_GET['category'];

answered Apr 30 at 13:38

smile
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Thanks this Worked – user1414193 May 6 at 5:48

Aneek Mukhopadhyay · Answer 2 · 2013-05-01 17:57:20Z

up vote 2 down vote

If you are using Drupal 7 then you can make use of existing function drupal_get_query_parameters

But also you can use

$_GET['category']

Make sure you use check_plain() to be sure of save URL values.

answered May 1 at 17:57

Aneek Mukhopadhyay
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