Need help with php directory

Archbob

I'm trying to code a classified ads directory in php.

I got the links thing works but how do I create categories?How does I get php to instandly generated pages with urls like ID=5 and how do I get links to go in the directories I want them to go in?

Rohan_Hill

Sounds to me like someone needs to learn some PHP 😃 You've asked quite a lot of questions there and I think you need to go through some tutorials and stuff to understand PHP a bit better. One thing I can help you out with though is that if your page is being accessed with the query string ?ID=5 then $_GET['ID'] will = 5 🙂

nemonoman

maybe archbob is asking a differenct question?

Archbob, are you saying:

how do I create a url in one of my dynamically generated PHP pages that looks something like this?

<a href=somefile.php?id=5>click here</a>

<?
$myid=5; 
echo "<a href=somefile.php?id=$myid>click here</a>"
?>

Archbob

I need to know when you fill out a form, how do you create a page for that category in php. I'm trying to write a yahoo-type directory script(although not as complicated) where basically it is a multicategory FFA script with each category being a different page.

nemonoman

OK, archbob, now I'm with rohan...time to go the tutorials...

Archbob

Well, I've looked through lots of them and not one of them I could understand, I've managed to come up with this code on my own:

<?
include "connect.php";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM CatID order by CatID ASC";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die("Cannot query the database.<br>" . mysql_error()); //Query the database or die if failed
while($result = mysql_fetch_array($query)) //grabbing all links from query
{
$name=stripslashes($result["name"]);
$CatID=stripslashes($result["CatID"]);

{
echo "
<A href='category.php?CatID=$CatID'>$name</a>
<br><br>
"
;}
}
?>

It displays categories with ID=5 and stuff like that, when I click on it, it just reloads the same page, how do I insert links into categories like that, I'm so confused.