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I want to have links on my page that take the viewer to another page. On that second page, I want the PHP to display certain text if a certain link was clicked. Here is what I have so far, but I know something is wrong, I just don't know how to do it. Can anyone help?

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Burg Village</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Burg Village</h1>
<p>Locations:</p>
<p>Hero's House<br />
Best Friend's House<br />
<a href="location.php?location=item_shop">Item Shop</a><br />
Weapon Shop<br />
Exit To Caldor Island</p>
</body>
</html>

 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>Burg Village</h1>
<?php
if (location == 'item_shop')
{
echo "Buy <br />
Sell <br />
Exit <br />";
} else {
echo "Go somewhere else."
?>
</body>
</html>

 

Can anyone tell me how to do this correctly?

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When you do this:

location.php?location=item_shop

You need to get the value of location into a var.

 

This is broken, badly.

<?php

if (location == 'item_shop')

 

 

This is correct.

<?php

$location=$_GET['location'];

if ($location == 'item_shop')

...

Notice the use of GET

Notice the use of a $var in the if statement

 

 

HTH

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