PHP help? (Matt?)

[vegemitethief]

I ordered a book on PHP to learn it, but I need to know something quick: how do you do a script in which you can make the same page display different content depending on what you click, like the way Matt does when he does all the hoax pages?

It's just one of my friend's webpages, theanimehaven.net, has a serious case of the HTML's, go to the site and see. There's no content yet, but I just wanna see if I can help...

[Matt_TY]

I do it by passing variables in the URL i.e. the link to your hoaxpage, w. , is <a href = "hoaxmenu.php?hoaxer=wdot">

Then hoaxmenu.php has a line
$hoaxer = $_GET['hoaxer'];
that picks up on the "wdot" in the URL and opens your hoax data thusly:

$content = file("$hoaxer/hoax.txt");

That line slurps the entire file up into one variable called $content. Because of the way my page is set up, I made it so everyone had a separate directory, but you don't have to do that. You could have file("$hoaxer.txt") if you had files in the same directory called matt.txt and wdot.txt, for example.

You can then use a foreach loop to split said file into lines. Need any more help, PM/email me and I shall be happy to assist!

[vegemitethief]

*crash*

Yeah... I don't know one bit of pHP. That's why I ordered a book from the library. I think I'll need to email you...

Thanks though!

[Eco]

they have those at a library

[Matt_TY]

Thankyou for that scintillating contribution to the discussion, Eco.

W-Dot, I shall email you shortly.

[Eco]

I meant to put a ? on my other post