link indexing - simple question

[aevans4e]

ok guys i posted a message awhile back about how to make your links work like index.php?p=page using the switch command and $_GET... but how could i take that a step farther and be able to do

index.php?p=page&cat=cat
or something like that? and add to cat &cat=cat&topic=something

can anyone give me an example code to do that
thanks a bunch

ae

[cgraz]

not sure what you're trying to do, but if you have a url that looks like this:

index.php?p=page&cat=cat_name&topic=top_name

using

echo "Page: " . $_GET['p'] . "<br>";
echo "Cat: " . $_GET['cat'] . "<br>";
echo "Topic: " . $_GET['topic'] . "<br>";

Would output

Page: page
Cat: cat_name
Topic: top_name

Cgraz

[aevans4e]

i already have it where my links are like

index.php?p=links

and clicking that opens the links page... but when im inside the links page i want to be able to add to that and go farther like

index.php?p=links&cat=linux&link_id=7

how would i set that up?

[cgraz]

I'm really not sure what you're saying. You can't add to the url once the page hsa been loaded unless you refresh. If you just want variables in the url,t hen you have to pass them in your link.

<a href="index.php?p=links&cat=linux&link_id=7 ">Click here</a>

Cgraz

[aevans4e]

no.. what im meaning is like on this phhpbuilder site when u click on submit reply it does
newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&threadid=10230607

i want to add to my current links..
index.php?p=pagename
i want to add to it like a sub link like
index.php?p=pagename&id=7
so the variable pagename can have an unlimited # of different pages like id 1-5999 or some such

[spirp]

As I see it, what you want to do is to have different categories on your pages. If you have a link-page, you maybe would like to have categories like "Search engines", "Code-snippets", "Software developers" and such? Then, when you call the page like this:

index.php?p=links&cat=2

you'd get a page containing only the second category? (in this case, "Code-snippets"). Does this match with you ideas?

My suggestion is that you store all your links in a database (MySQL is my flavor of choice). Store them in a table like this:
[FONT=courier new][LID][NAME][URL][CATEGORY][/FONT]

where:

LID is the ID of the link,
NAME is the display-name
URL is the link's url
CATEGORY is the name or ID of the category (possibly stored in another table)

When you've got all your links stored like this, it's fairly simple to create a page that does a query to database, retrieves the links of each category, and optionally displays that link. All this depending on the variables passed to the page through GET or POST (that is: ?page=link&cat=category&link=link_id).

From your previous posts I take it you don't have much experience of PHP-programming? If this is correct, my suggestion is that you get a book about PHP, and start reading. This is almost always the easiest way to gain knowledge 🙂

Good luck,
Olle

[aevans4e]

i happen to know intermediate levels of php.. i dont post here often, just when i need help with something... and certain things about php ive never figured out... hense, i post my questions here..

i have a book about php but i dont know the 'technical' term to lookup for doing index.php?p=1&cat=7... i dont know if its link indexing or if its a different term..

and no, i dont want to use a mysql database, i havent learned enough of that to do that yet...

[spirp]

Sorry if I offended you, that was absolutely not my intention.

If what I described above doesn't match what you need, could you try to explain it in some more depth?

// Olle

[aevans4e]

its ok... all i want to do is be able to (i know this isnt the best way to do what im wantingg, but until i learn mysql i want to try doing it this way)

id like to make one page say.. tutorials.php and put several 10 or so different tutorials in that file as function tut1 { }

something like that
and on the main tutorials page such as index.php?p=tutorials
there will be a list of links to the tutorials i have avaliable
and when someone clicks a link the page will goto
index.php?p=tutorials&tut_id=7
and within the main index.php page, in the content frame, that tutorial id #7 will display there

[s_strong]

This is the way I do it..

switch ($page) {

 case "tutorials":

       include("./includes/" .$id. ".inc");

 break;

 default:

      etc....

 break;

}

make a folder called includes and in it put a seperate file for each tutorial. This file will then be "included" in them main page. i.e.

Tutorial 1 - 1.inc
Tutorial 2 - 2.inc

Then you can put this in as your url;

indxex.php?page=tutorials&id=1
(this would include 1.inc which is the 1st tutorial)

or

indxex.php?page=tutorials&id=2
(this would include 2.inc which is the 2nd tutorial)

....and so on.

Hope this helps.