Joomla! Documentation™

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Example of Get and Set Methods

Get and set methods are provided for all the component parts of a URI. The following names of the component parts are used:

     http://fredbloggs:itsasecret@www.example.com:8080/path/to/Joomla/index.php?task=view&id=32#anchorthis
     \__/   \________/ \________/ \_____________/ \__/\_______________________/ \_____________/ \________/
      |          |         |              |        |              |                    |            |
   scheme      user       pass          host      port          path                 query       fragment

The example column in the following table illustrates the result of each of the get methods on the URI above.

Get method	Set method	Description	Example
getFragment	setFragment	Fragment (everything after the '#'). This is often referred to as an anchor.	anchorthis
getHost	setHost	Hostname or IP address. For example, 'www.joomla.org' or '192.168.2.45'.	www.example.com
getPass	setPass	Password part of the authority.	itsasecret
getPath	setPath	Path string. Note that the path always includes the leading "/" character.	/path/to/Joomla/index.php
getPort	setPort	Port number. Specific schemes (protocols) have their own defaults (for example, 'http' is port 80, 'ftp' is port 21).	8080
getQuery	setQuery	Query in string format. For example, "foo=bar&x=y". See also buildQuery.	task=view&id=32
getScheme	setScheme	Scheme (protocol). For example, 'http', 'https', 'ftp'.	http
getUser	setUser	Username part of the authority.	fredbloggs
getVar	setVar	An individual query item value from within the query part. See also delVar.	32

Chris Davenport 13:17, 17 April 2011 (CDT) Edit comment