gettin output from url

[randomx]

I'm using visio here (just a diagram making program), that I'm going to make each box/object clickable by adding a link to the description. But this is not the problem.

The problem is, the URL that I will be entering. I was thinking having a URL like: blah.com/description.php?box_one, PHP will see that it is calling for box_one so will call the textfile box_one.txt and echo the text from that textfile into description.php, if you know what I mean.

All these textfiles will be in one directory like ../blah/desc/ and PHP wont look for the file anywhere else, can this be done easy enough?

The only thing is that I cannot alter the PHP code say when there is a new diagram or new box to be linked. So the user adds the textfile into the dir and adds the *.php?box_fifty or whatever to the url and have PHP look for that, if ya get me.

[AstroTeg]

By doing: mypage.php?box_one

You're setting up a variable called "box_one", but you never assign it a value. I'm not sure if PHP's isset() will work here or not. If it doesn't work, then you'll need to do something like: "mypage.php?box=one" or something that has an equals in it. Or you could also get creative with .htaccess and go that route.

[randomx]

Originally posted by AstroTeg
By doing: mypage.php?box_one

You're setting up a variable called "box_one", but you never assign it a value. I'm not sure if PHP's isset() will work here or not. If it doesn't work, then you'll need to do something like: "mypage.php?box=one" or something that has an equals in it. Or you could also get creative with .htaccess and go that route.

Thanks for the reply.

Don't suppose you have any examples of this type of thing, as I'm fairly new to PHP.