Templates or GET?

Anon

I'm a newbie to PHP (just know basic syntax and use include to create simple templates)
I would like to know a better way to group ideas together.

Many pages have the url like:
www.xxxxx.com/xxx.php3?xxx=xxx
That seems to be the method I'm looking for.
Did it Get or queue a variable out from a database? Or is that driven from template (Embedded or Fast?)?

Please advice me how I can implement this time-saving feature into my site.

Anon

the format file.php?question=answer means the script is been called via GET method from FORM.

so if you have a form, which has ACTION="file.php?view=show" and then you have a button to process that ACTION e.g.
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Show View">

and then, in your file.php you can have:

if ($submit) {
if ($view == 'show') {
echo 'hello, this is show view';
}
else if ($view == 'edit') {
echo 'this is edit view';
}
}

i hope this clears up the idea.

regards,
Daarius...

Anon

Thank you very much!

But most of the people just make links like: <a href="www.x.com/x.php3?x=y> in their first page instead of a form. I am thinking that by adding "?x=y" at the end of the url, it will make variable x equals y in the "x.php3". Am I correct? Or what does that do? Many pages are setup that way, for example this website.

midget

Why don't you work by calling, for example:

http://www.xxx.com/?action=page1

switch($action){

case "page1": include "page1.php"; break;
case "page2": include "page1.php"; break;
case "page3": include "page1.php"; break;
default: include "page0.php"; break;

}