[SOLVED] Unique urls to pages that may change

[SirChick]

I need help here, i duno what kinda thing im looking for to do this but ill give an example,

 

Say in my database i have "places"

Now what i wanted to do is load up these places like:

 

South

North

West

 

etc

But as these are loaded they need to be urls to that particular place, but i don't know how this would be done because the places may change like West may not be there any more and it could change to East.. so i cant hard code the url as west cos then if u wanted to go east it would still be taking you west =/

 

I been trying to do it for businesses so like it lists all businesses and itll take you the business you clicked on ... how would the page know the url name of that business :S?

[revraz]

What determines which one is active?

[SirChick]

ok let me just explain slightly different ... an example:

 

say you have list of users...

 

user 1

user 2

user 3

 

now what i want is when the user clicks on one of them 3 it'll take them to that peron's profile.

 

Now obviously each user can't have their .php script so it would be ludicrous to do localhost/user1.php or localhost/user2.php and so on and so on..

 

yet some how when the user selects on of them itll take them to their profile.. (obviously by sending some kinda value) but how does it send the value and what value would it send :S

[revraz]

This is usually done via the ID and $_GET["ID'] of the row.

[SirChick]

How would ya put the variable into the url to use get? would it be like

test.php?id=<?=echo$id;?>

[revraz]

<a href="editnews.php?id=<?php echo $row->id; ?>"

 

I use an associate array here for my Edit News link.

[SirChick]

Echo'<a href="business.php?biz=<?={$GetCommercialResult['BusinessID']};?>"><?={$GetCommercialResult['BusinessName']}?></a>';

That is what i put but it is not working,

 

i get this as an error:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\londoncommercial.php on line 12

 

[trq]

If your using echo then your already in php. No need for the php tags.

 

echo "<a href='londonbusprocess.php?bus={$GetCommercialResult['BusinessID']}'>{$GetCommercialResult['BusinessName']}</a>";

[SirChick]

thankyou