Help Newbie Here..

BigLinuxGeek

OK Guys, I'm new at this stuff so if you can help me out it would be greatly appreciated.. I'm unsure of how to do the following and wanting to learn.

I'm trying to write a PHP where if say you have file.php and you want to define a variable within the file.php to the variable ok and I want ti show file.php?ok=name and the variable is a URL and it needs to include that URL and then I want an alternative page to replace them being taken to that page (meaning I don't want it to actually go to the url stored in the variable another url that I set).

BigLinuxGeek

Also, When trying to display an image and defining

$file="imagename.gif";

and then using img src="$file" the file shows up as a missing image but yet the variable and the image is defined. I'm not sure what is also wrong with this. The Missing image shows up as $file is the exact image.

Mordecai

You want to use $_GET["ok"] for file.php?ok=name. This will return "name."
As for using this in the <img>, you probably don't have $file in PHP. Instead, use something like this:
<img src="<?PHP=$file ?>">
This is the exact same thing as:
<img src="<?PHP echo($file); ?>">, just shorter.

There was more in your post that I didn't quite understand. What's not stated in my reponse, could you rephrase?

BigLinuxGeek

OK Here is a good example

http://demo:demo@dr2.net:2082/frontend/Xskin/changetheme.php

go there and click a theme and then you will see a Thank You, when you click that it goes to a variable behind the scenes (a URL like http://you:pw@ip:2082/edituser.php etc but instead it directing you to that page it directs you to another page.

Do you follow me? If you have any type of messenger pm me your name and I will get you on there.

Thanks for the help so far.