$_GET

[doddsey_65]

i have a page called tutorials.php. When a user clicks one of the displayed tutorials they are sent to tutorials.php?id=thetutorialid

 

thetutorial id is taken from the database column id.

 

however i want it to look something like tutorials.php?name=tutorialname

 

i thought of changing the $_GET['id'] to $_GET['tutorialname'] but it didnt work.

 

I also changed the hyperlink from tutorials.php?id=<? echo $id; ?>"> to tutorials.php?name=<? echo $tutorialname; ?>">

 

Any ideas?

[syed]

Did you change your sql?

[bugcoder]

I would suggest that you use id instead of name and you can handle www.xyz.com/productName by .htaccess file and that will be good too from search engine optimisation point of view. For .htaccess usage search "url rewriting tutorials" and you will find many.

[micah1701]

if you just want to change the URL from ?id=  to ?name=  then all you need to do in your PHP code is change $_GET['id'] to $_GET['name']

 

or am I not getting what you're trying to do?

[doddsey_65]

i did change it to get name but it didnt work. I think i will go for the rewrite thing cos i was doing this for SEO anyway.

[doddsey_65]

okay my host doesnt allow .htaccess so i need something different.

 

like i said i changed if (isset($_GET['id'])) to if (isset($_GET['tutorialname']))

 

and changed <a href="tutorials.php?id=<?php echo $row->id; ?>"> to

<a href="tutorials.php?name=<?php echo $row->tutorialname; ?>">

 

but its not working, the content doesnt show up when the page loads.