PHP Page Extension

M24KPM

I am pretty new to PHP and I need some help with something. I am trying to add a php page extension but I am not sure what my code needs to look like.

Example:
www.site.com/downloads.php?category=1
www.site.com/downloads.php?category=15
www.site.com/downloads.php?category=150

Can anyone help me out here? I need it to be in detail to cause I am a slow learner with PHP...

Houdini

What are you trying to do? None of those links really tell much other than you are passing category (the key) a value of 1 15 or 150 through the URL on the downloads.php page you need a script to get and use the values somehow.

ChrisBoden

I think he's trying to figure out how to use GET values.

M24KPM, the superglobal $_GET contains all GET values passed to a script. So in your example, you could have something like:

$category = $_GET['category'];

$sql = "SELECT * FROM downloads WHERE file_category = $category";

$resource = mysql_query($sql);

while($file = mysql_fetch_assoc($resource)) {
     echo $file['filename'] . " " . $file['title'] . " " . $file['size'];
}