Creating conversations via URL

[James]

The URL to create a conversation is:
http://xenforo.com/community/conversations/add?to=Username

Is this going to be changed/expanded to add multiple participants at once, something like:
http://xenforo.com/community/conversations/add?to=Username&Username+2&James&Mike

 

[Kier]

We could relatively easily add support for comma-separated names. Post in the suggestion forum

 

[James]

I think an ampersand might work better, presuming it doesn't conflict with standard query parameters.

 

[Enigma]

I think an ampersand might work better, presuming it doesn't conflict with standard query parameters.

Why? What's wrong with this: http://xenforo.com/community/conversations/add?to=James,Kier,Mike

 

[Freddie]

Ampersand gets you:

http://xenforo.com/community/conversations/add?to[]=James&to[]=Kier&to[]=Mike

Not very nice if you are going to be manually entering it.

 

[James]

Suggestion for this is here: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/suggestion-conversations-via-url-to-multiple-participants.1241/

 

[Onimua]

I think an ampersand might work better, presuming it doesn't conflict with standard query parameters.

This would be a bad idea. The script won't be able to read it because the ampersand in URLs "break up" the information in the link. For example...

http://link.com/script.php?food=burger&drink=water

When the script looks at it, the information passed is...

echo $_REQUEST['food']; // This would print "burger" to the screen
echo $_REQUEST['drink']; // This would print "water" to the screen

If you wanted to use an ampersand to divide each username using the following URL, you'd end up with a script that doesn't take all the names.

/conversations/add?to=user1&user2&user3

echo $_REQUEST['to']; // This would only return "user1"

 

[Freddie]

Onimua, see my post for how you would use the ampersand, if one chose that direction.

 

[Onimua]

Onimua, see my post for how you would use the ampersand, if one chose that direction.

Ew, such an ugly link! I did see it, I was rather expanding upon why using ampersand would be a bad idea on its own. Turning it into an array could be done but it's just a bad approach as you've highlighted.

 

[James]

Comma-separated works fine - no worries