Pass variable through <a href>?

[Anon]

I have a phone list pulled from Oracle using PHP. I would like to let the users click on a column heading to sort by last, first, extension, or department. I figured I would put each query in an array and depending on which column they click on, it will perform the respective query. Can I pass a variable with <a href> so that I know which query to use?

Hope this is clear enough!

Thanks for any assistance.

[cheesehead]

Easily. You can create you own query strings simply by putting the name value pair after the page name. e.g.

<a href="page.php?sort=last">Sort by last</a>

This will give you a variable of $sort with a value of last on page.php