changing content in a table?

[Agirman]

Hello,

I want to create a simple php page with links and 1 table. And everytime i click on a link the content of the table should be changed in another document. I read some threads i found functions like : Inlcude($variable.php) require....etc. but couldn't get it working.
Does anyone know a simple script to solve my problem?

[LordShryku]

Is this a SQL table? Or an HTML table? I think you're saying it's an HTML table, in which case, your links can just add the content in the URL.

Like...

<a href="nextPage.php?content=a">A</a>
<br>
<a href="nextPage.php?content=b">B</a>
<br>
<a href="nextPage.php?content=c">C</a>

Then on nextPage.php, you do a basic switch statement, which is nothing more than a better if/elseif/else type statement.

<?
switch($_GET['content']) {
    case "a":
        $tableStuff = "A content";
        break;

case "b":
    $tableStuff = "B content";
    break;

case "c":
    $tableStuff = "C content";
    break;

default:
    $tableStuff = "Nothing to display";
    break;
}

//now build the table, with the content
echo "<table border=\"1\">
  <tr>
    <td>".$tableStuff."</td>
   </tr>
</table>";

hth

[Agirman]

I think i know the problem now my apache or PHP configuration doesn't support variables in the url "nextPage.php?content=a",
it doesn't get the variable, does anyone know where i can configure this?

[LordShryku]

If you see the variable in the URL, it's getting it. You just have to reference it like this -> $_GET['content']

If you want to change this, you can turn on register_globals. Though I wouldn't suggest it. I would however suggest you read the manual and search these forums on register_globals, so you can see the downside of having it on.

[Agirman]

Thank you very much it worked🙂