Not Sure What its Called

Mooselyn

Hi ya all 🙂 OK I want to learn more about how one uses PHP in reference of creating the links to look like: http://domain.php?id=32

Another words is there a specific name that the ?id= has or any suggestions on links or direction where one can learn more about this??

Any tip would be Wonderful! Thanks!

jdog5

Not sure exactly what you want to know, but I'll see if I can explain a little.

When you see the webpage.php?id=32, a page is passing a variable in the URL to another page.

In this example, you might have clicked on a title of a story, (record #32 in the D😎, and when you go to the page where you read the entire story, the page takes the id=32, filters it against the matching column in the DB, and retrieves the record that matches (id=32). It retrieves the entire record if need be, in this case being the title, story, author, etc., and recreates the page.

So, if you go back to the prior page and click another link, it may be linked to id=15, which would pull the record where id=15 from the DB, and display the results.

Make sense?

Mooselyn

OK ya that makes more sense... So then I guess the question would be how and where do I learn the PHP code to write PHP to use that method.

Thing is I got books and everything but nothing that really tells or shows how to actually write the script to get the links to work that way or how to write php in that manner.... Any suggestion how I can find out more on writing php that way?

msk_1980

how r u trying to use it.

if u r using it as an href then u need to make one up like:

<a href="http://mydomain/requestpage.php?id=35"> click here to get more </a>

( u can create one dynamically py using <a href="http://mydomain/requestpage.php?id=<?=$record_id?>" > click here to get more </a> )

and u need to have request page to look for id value of id and process the request.

here is a good example for you to follow:
http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/php-mysql-paging.php

hope it helps.

Mooselyn

Thanks a ton MSK 1980, your post was the most helpful and exactly what I am looking for 🙂 I got it bookmarked to look more into it as I learn more about PHP 🙂