Re: Why using this? When....

On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 09:31 AM, ...::: Rober2.com :::... wrote:

What's really the meaning with whatever.php?page=1 when you are NOT using a db? Just cuz it looks cool? Or is there a better reason? -Cuz you could do <a href="whatever.htm"> instead of blabla.php?page=1 (having include('blabla.htm'); in a script in blabla.php...of course)

You can pass $_GET variables in this way, which become available on the next page. Here's an example: http://domain.com/whatever.php?theme=metallic Now in the whatever.php script, if there is code like this: // determine user's theme preferences print "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\""; if ($_GET['theme']) { switch $_GET['theme'] {

    case 'sky':
      print 'sky.css';
    case 'metallic':
      print 'metallic.css';
    default:
      print 'standard.css';

} } else { print 'standard.css'; } print "\" />"; // finish the <link> tag Obviously, you wouldn't really use a theme in this fashion since you'd have to replicate this value in every link in your document -- this kind of thing is more appropriate to have in a session variable. But the lesson is the same -- variables can be passed in this fashion for any purpose, not just database access. (It's called "passing a variable in the querystring".) HTH, Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com