How to make this link work?

[11Tami]

Hello, I need text link number 2 to appear but only if text link 1 has been clicked on. Trouble I'm having is it shows both of them at the same time.  So~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<?php
$1 = "< href='http://www.website.com/pagelinksareon.php'>link 1</a>";
echo "$1";
if ($1)
{echo "< href='http://www.website.com/leadstoapageelsewhere'>link 2</a>";}
?>

 

Shows both at the same time which isn't what I need.

Do I need some sort of if $1 is active type command? If so how is that done?

How does php know if a link has been clicked on?

Please let me know, thank you very much.

[steve448]

To do this in php you will need to reload the page when they click link 1 because php is interpreted on the server and not the users browser.

 

So:

<?php
echo '<a href="?id=1">link 1</a>';

if(isset($_GET['id']))  {

echo '<a href="http://www.website.com/leadstoapageelsewhere">link 2</a>';

  }
?>

For something like this your probably better of using javascript though because then you can do it without reloading the page.

[11Tami]

Thank you very much something like that is just what I need. Refreshing is no problem either and the search engines can also search the links. How do I do it so it can continue?  Because there will be other links with different id numbers as well. That way when they click on a different header, different links can appear instead.

 

<?php
echo "<a href='?id=1'>category1</a>";
if(isset($_GET['id']))  {
echo "<a href='http://www.website.com/leadstoapageelsewhere'>link 1</a>";}

echo "<a href='?id=2'>category2</a>";
if(isset($_GET['????']))  {
echo "<a href='http://www.website.com/leadstoapageelsewhere'>link 2</a>";}
?>

 

Please let me know, thanks.

[steve448]

<?php 
if($_GET['id'] == 1)  {

  //display this link

   }

elseif($_GET['id'] == 2)  {

  //display this link

  }   
?>

[11Tami]

Thanks a lot, that was it, I'll send you something!

[steve448]

No need to send me anything.

 

Just mark the topic as solved!

[steve448]

Thats great, so the thanks I get for helping you is SPAM in my message box.

 

Must help you again sometime!

[11Tami]

Lol, did you take a good look, its not spam but tons of value took me years to find. Gosh something really wrong. Its not working in Mozilla and Opera, need some help to figure out why. Works fine in IE. When you click on the ones that are link it doesn't go to the web pages, it just sits there.

 

<?php
echo "<a href='?id=1'>Heading 1</a>";
if ($_GET['id'] == 1){echo "<a href='topageone'>link1</a>";}
echo "<a  href='?id=2'>Heading 2</a>";
if ($_GET['id'] == 2)
{echo "<a href='topage2'>link2</a>";?>

 

I'm calling it with a php include. Maybe my include is incorrect for a full path file. This is how it looks.

 

<?php

include 'http://www.website.com/directory1/menu.php';

?>

 

Can anyone see why the linking code above doesn't work in Mozilla and Opera? Please let me know, thank you very much.

[11Tami]

I really need some help. I fixed the just above problem but don't know how to fix this. The only problem I have left with this is when there are 2 or more links returned per id, like in example given in id 2.... is sometimes they both are returned and sometimes they aren't. Any way to fix this?

 

<?php
echo "<a href='?id=1'>Heading 1</a>";
if ($_GET['id'] == 1){echo "<a href='topageone'>link1</a>";}
echo "<a  href='?id=2'>Heading 2</a>";
if ($_GET['id'] == 2){echo "<a href='topage2'>link2</a><a href='topage2'>link3</a>";}
?>

 

Please let me know, thank you.

[Wes1890]

try this:

 

<?php

// The links that will be shown.. blank for now
$links = "";

// Check the $_GET variable to see what we need to show
// The $links .= means that the value will ADD TO what $links already is
$links .= "<a href='?id=1'>Heading 1</a><br />";
if ($_GET['id'] == 1)
{
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link1</a><br />";
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link2</a><br />";
}

$links .= "<a  href='?id=2'>Heading 2</a><br />";
if ($_GET['id'] == 2)
{
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link1</a><br />";
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link2</a><br />";
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link3</a><br />";
  $links .= "<a href='topageone'>link4</a><br />";
}

// Show links
echo $links;
?>

[11Tami]

I think thats going to do it, I'm pretty sure the search engines will like it and its working much better. Thanks a lot!