Re: a menu item from a database, linked to a list from a another table

On Thursday 14 November 2002 23:17, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > Jason Wong <php-db@gremlins.biz> wrote on 11/13/2002 10:46:32 PM: > > On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:32, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > > > Is this even possible? I have a menu that is generated from a table. > > > > What is your menu -- a set of <a> tags? or a selector box? I suspect you > > mean > > > the latter ... > > Not a list box, but a menu of about 15 category titles, all shown on the > page in > a list, click on category get the category items listed. Both the category > titles > and the individual items will come from a database. > I am trying this to make a faq's page - list the faq categories, click on > the > category and get the list of faq's. The first part is easy, the second part > is > easy, both seperately. Right, so make your links something like: http://www.example.com/faq.php?category=3 Your page then uses $_GET['category'] to builds a query to extract the items in the selected category. Then it builds links which looks something like: http://www.example.com/faq.php?category=3&item=2 -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -Arthur C. Clarke */