Backpage / Craigslist Style Ads

[phpnewbie34]

Hello programmers,

I'm experimenting with creating a craigslist style website.

How would I turn a title into a link?

For example: A customer makes an advertisement with the name "Bicycle for sale"
How I can turn that into a link that directs to another page that has their information in the database listed.

Any help would be great

[Weedpacket]

You put [font=monospace]<a>[/font]...[font=monospace]</a>[/font] tags around it.

[phpnewbie34]

I know how to do the tags <a> etc...

For example - I want to generate a list of today's classifieds and have them
link to another page that was generated with their info

So they enter a bunch of info, then I retrieve their names, and when you click their names, it links to a separate page.

When you click on a link on Craigslist it goes to craigslist.com/123345s etc.

[phpnewbie34]

Does anybody know how to make a classified page similar to backpage?

I have the MySQL database working, I just want to retrieve the info like

ID | Name | Picture | Ad etc...

from the database (which I can do), but I want to make the Ad string a LINK, and then have that link direct to another page, which the ID, Pictures, Name etc on that page.

How do I turn a string into a link like that? Do I need to create the other page first? It's hard to explain. Look at backpage.com for reference.

Thanks programmers. 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

Thread closed; duplicate of Advanced PHP Question.

[Weedpacket]

And I'd already merged two of these threads together.