Dynamic Web Pages -- From a database

[smp]

Hi,

I have a database driven web site created, where all of the information for the web site, is actually coming out of one database.

I want the pages to be dynamic, in that, when I click on one link, the ID field will be passed into the query, and it will return all of the information for that specific ID. I have a template page, and basically I always want to use the same page, but have the content in the middle change depending on what the ID is.

I have figured out how to associate an ID with a particular link, but I cannot get my page to display at all, I think I have something in the syntax done wrong...here is what i have as the link

<a href = 'PHP_SELF?index.php=$bid' CLASS = "btn"> <? echo($bname); ?></a>

where:
index.php is my template page, $bid is the ID that is being assigned to a certain link and $bname, is just the link name (both variables are returned in a query from the database.

When I select a particular $bname, I want it to pass the associated $bid to another query, and then return the appropriate contents for that $bid....

I hope someone can help....

Thanks,

SP

[jpmoriarty]

that question got way too complicated for me quite early on, but you're going to have to put that $bid into php tags unless you want the link to have ?$bid on the end of it - if you want it to be ?a value, then then $bid will have to be surrounded by <?php echo $bid; ?>

[jerdo]

Also don't call PHP_SELF in the href as well as index.php. If you are on index.php what you will get is index.php?index.php=$bid