[SOLVED] Assigning values within href

[jseaman]

I'm having a hard time finding information (probably due to how I'm phrasing my searches) on how to assign a variable to an href.

 

The big picture is I have a bunch of photos I'm trying to put on my website.  I have an equally large bunch of thumbnails with links, all to the same page (pictures.php) that has a snippet of php (seen below).  In my links I am attempting to assign a value to a variable that corresponds with a picture.

 

Here is the php snippet in pictures.php:

 

<?php

echo '<img src=images/'. $picture. '.jpg>';

?>

 

Now, this is how my href looks on the page with all the thumbnails:

<a href="index.php?page=pictures.php" name="picture" value="pic001">[thumbnail]</a>

 

My php is fine, when I look at the source on the web it looks like <img src=images/.jpg>.  So the problem obviously lies in how I'm doing my link.  My questions are, can I do what I'm trying to do?  If so, how?  If not, what's another similar method I can do to make this work?

[pocobueno1388]

Try this:

 

<?php
   echo "<img src='images/$picture.jpg'>";
?>

[envexlabs]

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Hey,

 

It doesn't look like you have any code grabbing the page=picture.php, which would be a $_GET

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, if echo'd would be picture.php

 

You could set different variables and use an if:

 

$test = $_GET

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if($test == "one")

{

$picture = "matt.jpg";

}else{}

 

Then $picture would have a value of matt.jpg

 

It just looks like your trying to pass a variable that isn't being defined.

 

 

[jseaman]

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You'll have to excuse me, I'm not very familiar with PHP, thus I'm finding this really confusing. 

 

I understand the if statement provided.  What I don't understand the $_GET

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or how it is being used.

[The Little Guy]

Rebuild your code like like so:

<a href="index.php?page=pictures.php&picVal=pic001" name="picture">Link Text/Image</a>
<?php
   //Rebuild your PHP like so:
   $picture = $_GET['picVal'];
   echo '<img src=images/'. $picture. '.jpg>';
?>

[jseaman]

Thanks, that works well.  Not quite as I had hoped, but it works none-the-less.  Thank you again.