Simple! how to use "name.php?text"

[Anon]

I'm really new into php. Please help me with this simple issue:

I want a page to output (echo) different things depending on the URL, for instance:
index.php?hello - shall output "hello"
and
index.php?goodbye - shall output "goodbye"

I've tried something like
<?php=hello
echo("hello").... etc. Does not work!

PLEASE help me with this!

[btubalinal]

I don't see how that would work because the '?' is only appended to the url if you have a form using the 'get' method with some sort of input with a valid name. For instance, suppose you have the form:

<form action="whereever.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="somename" value="somevalue">
<input type="submit">
</form>

the resulting url would then be:
http://whateverhost/wherever.php?somename=somevalue

you could then use php like:
<?php
echo $somename;
?>
which would print out "somevalue".

if you took out the name attribute from the hidden field, then the url would just be:
http://whateverhost/wherever.php

no query_string will be passed to the page and, therefore, no value to print out.

Hope this helps you understand a little.

Bart

[Anon]

Hey,

I'm no expert either, but I think you mean the following:

if the url is: www.yourpage.com/yourpage.php?variable=hello

you should place the following code in yourpage.php

<?php

echo("$variable");

?>

Now the word hello will be displayed in yourpage.php

Hope this helps, Michiel