Accessing the query string in a document

Question

How can I place the value of a variable from the URL query string (e.g., ?location=london) into an HTML page?

I currently have been trying to do this and implemented a url parser and placed it inside the html page with this

<span id="location"></span>

near the area that I want it to belong, unfortunately this didn't seem to work.

Answer 1

This should get you what you need.

   echo $_GET['location'];