how to create query string for $_GET without HTML form and URL?

Question

Imaging we are at home page: www.example.com

we have a hyperlink on this page.

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Answer 1

In that repo, take a look in public/.htaccess This is where the magic happens. It's the web server which actually does the job of mapping the url to parameters. The code looks like this:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^category/(.*)$ index.php?page=category&cat=$1 [L]

What that's doing is saying any url that looks like category/ will be rewritten to index.php?page=category&cat=

So index.php actually handles all those requests, and has the correct GET value - even though the url used is different.