Add query string to plugin URL

Question

I am creating a plugin that resides at http://localhost/test/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=my-plugin

I am trying to add a query string to this page so that it can be used in my plugin such as http://localhost/test/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=my-plugin?myVar=cool

The problem is that this prompts wordpress to display the "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." page.

How can I add a query string to my plugin URL? Is this documented someplace?

thanks for the help.

Answer 1

When you don't know if query string was started or not you can use add_query_arg which it knows how to deal with that and adds the "?" or "&" marks (which ever one is needed) to the query string.

Update

By popular demand I'm adding a few examples that are from the codex:

Using get_permalink:

Since get_permalink() returns a full URL, you could use that when you want to add variables to a post's page.

//  This would output whatever the URL to post ID 9 is, with 'hello=there' appended with either ? or &, depending on what's needed
echo add_query_arg( 'hello', 'there', get_permalink(9) );

more general:

Assuming we're at the WordPress URL "http://blog.example.com/client/?s=word"...

//  This would output '/client/?s=word&foo=bar'
echo add_query_arg( 'foo', 'bar' );

//  This would output '/client/?s=word&foo=bar&baz=tiny'
$arr_params = array ( 'foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'tiny' );
echo add_query_arg( $arr_params );

Or for use with any link you have you can pass the link uri:

//say your link is: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/14827/
//then use:

echo add_query_arg( 'hello', 'world','http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/14827/');

to get http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/14827/?hello=world

Example plugin page URL with extra query args:

$query_args = array( 'page' => 'your-plugin-page', 'foo' => 'bar' );
echo add_query_arg( $query_args, admin_url( '/options-general.php' ) )

// outputs
// http://example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=your-plugin-page&foo=bar