php question

[Anon]

How is it done that you can access a record with a url such as:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/post.php3?num=2

Is the post.php3 a template, and the num=2 just telling that template what record in the db to get the info from to fill in the template?

If this is the case, what is the code that is put into the page (template) to allow this to work?

I'm just learning, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Shawn

[fitzbean]

I would suggest you swallow you head on over to php.net and read the manual, your basically asking how to use mySQL w/php. To answer your question though, the num=2 is just a variable being passed to a script called post.php.. it's not actually fetching any records, if that's what you meant.