[SOLVED] Sessions? read(), file_get_contents()?

[trinity]

Hi, I'm here with more questions again, please excuse my ignorance as I am a complete beginner when it comes to PHP.

 

I have a table where each row displays a filename and then a link to what should be a new page, that will open and decrypt the aforementioned file. How do I make this work? I know I need to be doing something with session variables and get data, read() or file_get_contents(). I'd be thankful if someone could give me a fairly simple explanation of how this could be done.

[trinity]

Ok, I have

 

echo "<a href="FileDisplay.php?filename=<? echo $filename; ?>">Click here</a>";

 

with which I get some kind of syntax error, I have also tried:

 

echo "<a href="FileDisplay.php<?php echo (isset($filename) ? '?filename=' . $filename : ''); ?>">";

 

with this I get another syntax error, 'unexpected $end' on this line. I'm not sure if I need to include something else. Can anyone help?

[JonnoTheDev]

Sessions are for storing data without the need to pass through GET or POST requests so this is not really what you are after.

file_get_contents() simply reads the contents of a file.

 

If you are a beginner you should read the http://php.net functions manual to see what functions do, what parameteres they expect and what they return.

 

Your syntax is bad:

echo "<a href="FileDisplay.php?filename=<? echo $filename; ?>">Click here</a>";

 

Use

echo "<a href=\"FileDisplay.php?filename=".$filename."\">Click here</a>";

 

 

You need a PHP beginners book mate.

[trinity]

Yeah thanks for that, that's all I needed. I'm female not male by the way like the 'mate' suggests haha. And I am getting a beginners book now! Thanks again