quick question

[Anon]

This is gonna sound really stupid, so here we go..

http://www.poxin.com/internal.php3

take that page as an example. The links next to the picture direct to "internal.php3?=whatever" now i've looked through plenty fo tutorials and whatnot but still havn't found out how to do this (or i missed it).

Do you have to define a section of php and swap different sections of code in and out? plz if you can direct me to a tutorial that shows how to do this or just show me the code i think i can figure it out! thx in advance 😃

[yelvington]

Actually, it's not "internal.php3?=whatever" but rather
"internal.php3?name=whatever."

If you look at the top of this page, you'll see:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=129235&thread=129235

In each case, after the question mark, there are one or more name=value pairs. If more than one, the pairs are separated by ampersands.

If you will read the first part of the PHP manual, it explains that PHP takes that information and creates variables that contain the values that were passed in the URL. So, internal.php3?name=whatever creates a variable "$name," and if you take its value, it will be "whatever."

When you write a PHP script, you simply use language constructs such as "if" and "else" to allow the variables to determine alternative behavior.