what's with all of the &'s

[ll4ever]

just wondering.
ya, I have issues when it comes to this stuff. :P

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&section=markasread&marktype=forum&forumid=298&returntoforumid=298

I'm just wondering why there's so much info in the links. we already know it's a forum. It's not just that link but I've seen it in others. Can't it be simplified to something shorter?

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?cmd=markasread&forumid=298

[Cold Fire]

It's passing different information to the script.

[Michael]

It's how query strings work. Does it actually matter what the URL looks like? Does that impact anything, really?

[Ryan H.]

This tells it where to send you after marking it as read. Again, flexibility.

app=forums&module=forums&section=markasread

This is boilerplate code in 3.0--it tells it what part of the code to actually go to. Every page on the forum has a similar strand, whether you see it or not.

&marktype=forum

This tells it what type of content it's marking as read--I don't know what other possibilities there might be, but it's for flexibility.

&forumid=298

This tells it what forum you're actually marking as read.

&returntoforumid=298

[Lee Craven]

I knew it was script related, I just thought it was saying something like '& include "blahblah.php' too type of thing (not got a bit of code experience in my head :lol: )