Dont even know the term for it...

Anon

Hi folks,

I just learned PHP yesterday, and thanks to the "PHP4 A Beginner's Guide" by Bill McCarty and other resources I have been able to successfully code some dynamic pages for a website I've been working on.

My question is about what I want to do with my website. What I want to do is to use a single PHP page for a downloads section on the site.

The Downloads center would use two variables to determine which downloads to list based on data from a MySQL database.

aircraft type
world region

So, for example, you might have

downloads.php?aircraft=737&region=europe

And it would display the relevant data.

What I want to know is what exactly allows you to use the ".php?subset=value" form for pages. Sorry I can't explain this better, but I dont even know the term for it, so I can't really do any research on it. :-)

TIA,

Matt

Anon

heh...

the example should have read

downloads.php?aircraft=737&location=europe

location replaces "region"... apparently an ampresand plus "reg" is a function on this forum :-)

Matt

Anon

You can use one of a few pre-defined arrays, depending on which method (GET or POST) you are using. (The example you gave above is GET.)

So, use $_GET['aircraft']'' and$GET['location']'', for GET queries. $_POST'' works the same way for POSTed queries, and you can use$REQUEST'' for either.

Anon

Hi,

Yipes, now I'm even more confused...

Where exactly, do I place this code and in what context? I added the code to the page and nothing happened.

Perhaps either I'm doing something wrong (which is most likely the case) or I didn't explain what I wanted to do clearly..

What I want the "downloads.php?aircraft=732&location=europe" function to do is to go into the database, look at the "aircraft" and "location" rows in the DB and list only those which the row values equal "732" and "europe".

Thanks again,

Matt

dalecosp

You are passing the values for $aircraft
and $location from an html form using the
GET method, this is why the variable values
are appended to the URL in this way.

You must pass the action of this form
to a php script which will access the DB. This script will be called by the SUBMIT
button on the HTML form.

This script should initialize the variables
for database access, select rows based on
$aircraft and $location, write results to
the browser, etc.

I'm not much of a DB guy, so sorry I can't
give you the whole script.

If you just "learned PHP yesterday," welcome
to the rest of school :-) There is always
something new to learn.

HTH, KDK

Anon

Yeah, looks like I'm going to have to have some more time under my belt before I get into stuff like this :-)

Thx..

Matt