$_GET without foo

Question

How can I use download.php?get=file.exe with without the get variable, like download.php?=file.exe, using the $_GET in PHP?

Answer 1

You can use $_GET[0] or $_REQUEST[0]

Answer 2

You could use $_SERVER['request_uri'] which would allow you to omit the ? completely, leaving you with URLs like example.com/download.php/file.exe

Then, with a bit of URL rewriting (or implementing a bootstrap controller) you could clean it up even more, resulting in example.com/download/file.exe