noob question

[Devon11]

my problem is that i don't know how to use "?" and "&" ,in a page link , or what exactly they do

can you explain me a bit?

 

what i want to do is a dinamic page for users; let's say that i have a page with member list from my site , and when i click a name to go to a page where i can find some info about that member

i can use a single page script for all of the members , right? who do i do that?

 

[akitchin]

? specifies the beginning of the query string in the URL. the format is this:

 

http://www.yoursite.com/file.php?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3

 

the & symbol delimits each variable and value pair. file.php, in the example above, would then have the following variables available:

 

$_GET['variable1']
$_GET['variable2']
$_GET['variable3']

 

with the values 'value1', 'value2', and 'value3' respectively.

[flyhoney]

And if you use method="get" in your html form, the url will be automatically constructed for you.

 

Ex:

<form action="whatever.php" method="get">
   <input type="text" name="variable1" value="value1" />
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

 

Submitting the above form will create the following url:

whatever.php?variable1=value1&submit=Submit

 

Does that help clear things up?

[Devon11]

and then i put ...

if(!isset($_GET['variable'])) $_GET['variable'] = '';
switch($_GET['variable'])
{
case  '':
<form action="whatever.php" method="get">
   <input type="text" name="variable" value="value" />
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
break;

case 'value':
//something else
break;
}

...??