Yes, using the same parameter more than once is generally not considered to be possible in PHP applications. I've done it in JSP apps, but you're right - in PHP you need to do it as an array (in which case you might as well do it as separate variables).

Anyway, you can do it like this:

domain.com/page.html?site[]=google&site[]=yahoo

Then you can get hold of the variables like this:

$site = JRequest::getVar("site");
if (is_array($site) and count($site) >= 2 and $site[0] == "google" and $site[1] == "yahoo") {
    $app->redirect("http://www.paypal.com/");
}

There are obviously lots of different ways that you can treat and check the array that comes out of this, but the important thing is that you pass the variables into the array with [] characters, and that you retrieve the array in a single JRequest::getVar call.

Hope that helps,
Stephen

Hi Stephen,

I'd like to take this a step further and use the values acquired from the URL to control FlexiTags used by AidaNews. In AidaNews, I can limit results by FlexiContent tag(s) by statically specifying tags in the parameters, but I want to do this dynamically (with URL variables).

So, if I get the variables "myTag1" and "myTag2" from:

$var = JRequest::getVar("var");
if (is_array($var) and count($var) >= 2 and $var[0] == "MyTag1" and $var[1] == "MyTag2") {
   
}

How would MetaMod tell an AidaNews module to limit results to the FlexiContent tags "MyTag1" and MyTag2"?

I'd be immensely grateful for any help!

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the reply. I just discovered MetaMod's ability to control other modules parameters, which is exactly what I need. However, I'm not quite there yet. I'm trying to use this code from your site to change the "flexitags" parameter within an AidaNews module (id 155):

$changes->mod(155)
   ->setParam("flexitags", "Epic");
return 155;

However, when I use this, the module disappears altogether. If I remove the value and just use ("flexitags", ""), the module reappears, but obviously nothing is being changed.

BTW, I also tried "enable( false)" just to see if it would work, and it had no effect on the module.

If it makes any difference, the parameter setting in AidaNews is actually a multiselect box populated with FLEXIcontent tags (of which "Epic" is one) and not a text field.

What am I doing wrong?