Replacing links with dynamic data

[karenn1]

Hey everyone!

 

Please have a look at this site: http://www.yellowpages.co.za

 

On the right there are business sections you can click on. Once in a section, there is details for all the relevant companies. Have a look at the link for "Phone". When you click on it, the link completely disappears and is replaced with the company telephone number. How can I use PHP to do this? I want to use this primarily on my site to keep track of how many times someone clicked on that link. Would I be able to do that as well?

 

 

Thanks,

Karen

[eric1235711]

Hello.

 

That thing in yp may be done with JS. About doing that with PHP isn't that hard...

[karenn1]

I don't actually want to use JS. I'm not quite familiar with it. I have some basic knowledge in PHP so it's easier for me to implement things in PHP. How do you suggest I go about it? Does anybody else have an idea?

 

 

Thanks,

Karen

[nicangeli]

Ok, i a m a noob, so this may not work.

 

For each of the phone links i would submit them to the page using PHP_SELF. Then apply an id and a display variable to the url so each link looks like this,

 

<a href="link.php?id=1&display=num">Phone</a>

 

So then you can use php to either show the actual text phone or the phone number with an if statement, as shown below,

 

<?php
if ($_GET[display] = "num")
{
echo "080989779";
}
else
{
echo '<a href="link.php?id=1&display=num">Phone</a>
}
?>

 

then to make it dynamic have a database set up with a phone numbers table with the fields id and phone. Then you can pull the correct number from the database using the id field.

 

Hope this helps.

[karenn1]

Hey nicangeli,

 

This makes sense. I'll give a try and let you know how it works.

 

 

Thanks,

Karen

[karenn1]

Okay, so i've tried the code given above and I managed to reference info from the database but clicking on the link doesn't do anything. The link looks as follows:

 

<a href="phone_link.php?id=<?= $rs_prop["id"]; ?>&display=<?= $rs_prop['home_no']; ?>">Phone</a>

 

$rs_prop is the variable where all the info of the database is stored. This gets called via a SQL statement. The above code returns the following:

 

phone_link.php?id=1&display=9135756

 

The principle works fine. I have a list of clients and for each one when rolling over the above link it displays the correct ID and phone number. I'm still struggling though. Can can I get it, when you click on the above link, the link itself gets replaced with the phone number? I don't want the page to go anywhere. The if statement supplied by nicangeli gives me errors. Can anyone else help?

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Karen

[karenn1]

Is there nobody who can help me with this? Please!!

 

 

 

Karen