php help

incarnate

you know those pages where its like http://www.sss.com/index.php is one page and the other links on the site are like http://www.sss.com/index.php?files < another page, http://www.sss.com/index.php?help < another page, etc. um how is that done and is mySQL involved?

weekender

if you follow a link index.php?help then in index.php you can get the url variable like so...

$urlvar = getenv(QUERY_STRING);
echo $urlvar; //outputs "help"

i think there's a way of having these automatically put into variables, so you could call index.php?urlvar=help and it would set the variable for you, but i'm not sure.

PhaZZed

The person has a file called index.php which basically contains all the pages on his site, when a link is clicked a variable is passed to the same index.php file in the form index.php?clickedlinkname, this variable then activates procedures in the index.php and loading the various contents.

Hope that helped, its just passnig a variable to the same file to load new content.

incarnate

example?