Alot of people do it! i want to!

[fluppet]

I've seen tons of sites use links in the form

pagename.php?page=newpage
or
pagename.php?id=new
or whatever.

How do i do this. I'm currently coding for a new site, and i want a link which will just include a different file depending on whats at the end, ie, id=register for the register page. How??? How!!

Thankyou in advance! 😃 😃 Fluppet.

[fluppet]

Anybody????

[laserlight]

Read the manual for more info:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

[fluppet]

ok... thanks... but it was absolutely no help at all and i've already seen it. I thought this was a basic thing, but obviously its more complicted that i thought. Dosen't every site use it??

[jebster]

<?php
// page is index.php?id=news.php
$id = $_GET['id'];
include("$id");  

?> 

[laserlight]

Let's examine what you might have:

if id is set
	if file corresponding to id exists
		include corresponding file
	else
		display error message
else
	display the index page

Working along those lines, we might decide to set id to the filename.
The files to be included could all have a .inc.php extension, and be located on the same directory as the index page, index.php
Then,

<?php
if (isset($_GET['id'])) {
	if (file_exists($_GET['id'] . '.inc.php')) {
		include($_GET['id'] . '.inc.php');
	}
	else {
		//display error message
	}
}
else {
	//display the index page stuff
}
?>

or something like that.

[fluppet]

Thanks to mr. very helpful! Appreciate it!

[Norman_Graham]

Don't know who mr. is - perhaps you mean Laserlight. Anywayz - the deal is, as Laserlight demonstrates, that you can add a query string to the end of any URL, thus:

<a href="myfile_displaydata.php?param=myparameter&style=mystyle" title="My page" target="_blank">My page</a>

. You just add a question mark to the end of the file name, the variable(without dollar sign) the equals operator and the value. For multiple arguments you use an ampersand between the arguments. The query is then available in the $_GET global array, or, if you have register_globals activated, simply available globally. Check your php_info() for details.

You can then use these variables to determine which content should be loaded. Thus you have only one file, but with variable content. This is perfect for cases where you have lots of content, but the display of the content is essentially the same in each case, e.g. mynewspage.php?date=today, mynewspage.php?date=yesterday

Best o luck

Norm

[NeoSkullX]

Well, it is very simple, everything after the "?" is counted as a variable and everything after the "=" is the variable contents, if u use a "&" everything after is another variable, u can use as many as u want. Here's an example:

index.php?me=tarzan&you=jane&monkey=cheeta

well, that covers mostly everyting, just use the variables normally in your code, cya

[batman]

This is how I do it:

<?

$page = $_GET['page'];


if(!$_GET['page']) {
   include("incl/home.incl");
} else {
   include("incl/" . $_GET['page'] . ".incl");
}

?>

Then what you want to do is:

1). Make a folder in your web named incl.

2). Make your pages you want with a .incl tag at the end, then upload them into the incl folder.
EXAMPLE: home.incl

3). Set your links.
EXAMPLE: <a href="index.php?page=contact">Contact</a>

The above example would basically be the index.php page but with the include of the contact page.

If this is confusing let me know,
-Blake

[DeltaRho2K]

If the Golabl vairables are disabled, (which is the case by default on php 4.0+ I believe) you can use the following:

extract ($HTTP_GET_VARS);

This will pull all of the varialbles, and split them up.

By using the $HTTP_GET_VARS, the following URL:
http://www.foo.com/index.php?ref=12&this=that&here=there

Produces the following variables:
ref=12
this=that
here=there

This saves you from having to write multiple $_GET strings if you have multiple variables defined.

[fluppet]

erm.. confused. I get the script and everyhthing, but i just get errors when i use your script. Parse errors on the first line of each code... and i tried both. I can follow them etc but i dnot get why its not working.

http://www.fluppet.co.uk/web1/php

theres some stuff there

thanks

[axo]

@:

sorry to ask you, but don't you think it better you first bought a book about basic php programming, then read what www.php.net says and then start programming your own things?

how do you want to learn how to improve or repair your bike if you don't even know what a bike is or what riding it means?

greets
axo

[fluppet]

Im coming along. I wrote my own private messenger script using SQL. So im not that bad... but i dont know so many fuctions... all i ask is for one simple script so i can make pages alot easier! Anyway.... isnt the whole idea of this place to have a community that helps each other? Especially in a forum labelled as coding unger "PHP help." If you really think its too much for me to ask how people do something i dont think theres any point to having a "php help" forum at all. Now if you dont mind i want to try and get this working.

edit: any by the way i do know what php is and i do know what making php means... thats pretty damn basic.