recalling a variable into a link

simonemagurno

i'm new to php and i think i might need some help on this one:
let's say i have different articles each written into a single .php page and i want to create a kind of CMS system trought wich i can administrate the links and the abstracts to the various articles without typing the whole text and code by hand, but just by recalling the variables i've set into the articles files ($a[title] and $a[txt], in wich resides the title and main text of each article).
Now in the articles index page i want to appear the title of the each article as a link to its main text.
That would be as recalling a variable wich resides in a separate file into a link.
This is how i figured out it could be, but doesn't work:
CODE FROM THE ARTICLES INDEX PAGE:

 include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 'archives/somearticle.php');
echo "<a href=\archives/somearticle.php?$a[txt]>$a[title]</a>";

CODE FROM A SINGLE ARTICLE PAGE:
<HTML>
<body>

 
$a ["title"] = "<div id=title><h1> ARTICLE TITLE </h1></div>";

$a ["txt"] ="<p>THE MAIN TEXT HERE</p>

</body>
</HTML>

i thought that the syntax "filename.php?varname" would have recalled the variable set within the file. But this doesn't work and i don't know how to do it.
any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated!
thanks

toxic_brain

although i didn't understatand ur problem exactly, i would like to point out an error in

echo "<a href=\archives/somearticle.php?$a[txt]>$a[title]</a>";

is the prefixed slash is ok?

echo "<a href=archives/somearticle.php?...

LoganK

I don't understand your error either...but I do know the arrays have to be enclosed within brackets in echo strings:

 echo "<a href='archives/somearticle.php?{$a['txt']}'>{$a['title']}</a>";

And yes, I got rid of that prefixed slash that toxic_brain mentioned. It's incorrect and will give you errors.

simonemagurno

my problem was how to acess the content of a variable from a link wich resides in a different page/file.
i've set a variable wich contains some text and i want to create a link in a different webpage to that variable, so i can access that text.

I hope to be more clear now!
thanks for correcting my typos, anyway!

TheoGB

I don't think you can do this. As I understand it you're saying that each PHP page contains an array $a that holds the Title of an article and the Text of the article.

While I believe it's possible to reference those variables, the method you are trying to invoke of page.php?variablename is the method used to send a variable into a page. (Check http://mokita.net/images.php - my band page and then click some thumbnails and look at the URL.)

Really you're proposing something that should be done with a database as it will be much clearer and much easier to maintain. While the initial work might be high because you then have to learn about MySQL the final result will be good. All CMS systems run on the basis of databases.

Alternatively, you can store your data in files and read those files in. These text files would allow you to create the main page and your test page. I use this method on my sites because the amount of data I need is very small.

http://theogb.com/document_classes.inc is where I have all my processing (I wrote this to teach myself PHP a while ago so that's why it's so full of random useless stuff). This is then invoked to read a text file like http://theogb.com/content_egyptday9.txt by using

  require ('document_classes.inc');

  $homepage = new TheoGB_Page(5, 'content_egyptday9.txt');
  $homepage -> Display();

which is all that exists in http://theogb.com/egypt_day9.php (click it to see the finished page.

simonemagurno

infact i was not sure that what i was trying to do was not even possible!
i'm taking some time to break down your code, it sounds like a good way to go... (since now i have a very short time and MySQL is completely unknown to me)
...maybe i'll need a bit of support on that one, but i hope you can help me a little more!
thanks a lot for your response.