Passing variable to address bar

[Davo]

Hello all.

 

I am working on a website that is having a language translation added. (As an after thought.)

I thought I could do this by passing a variable through the address bar. (eg. www.example.com/welcome.php?id=Chinese )

However some of the link buttons are already effected by a variable. (contact page contains a variable (request = contact) that turns the contact button red.) Is there any way that I could  make this button respond to two variables? (request = contact and id = Chinese) Therefore allowing the button to still turn red but also adding the variable to the link when appropriate?

 

Something like this??

 

If ($Request =='Contact')

{

$ContactImage="<a href=\"Contact.php\"><img src='Images/NavContactRed.gif' border='0'></a>"; 

}

elseif($Request =='Contact' AND $id == 'Chinese')

{

$ContactImage="<a href=\"Contact.php?id=Chinese\"><img src='Images/NavContactRed.gif' border='0'></a>";

}

 

Thanks

[KrisNz]

separate each item with &

 

e.g

<a href="www.example.com/welcome.php?id=Chinese&anotherarg=somethingelse">Text</a>

[pocobueno1388]

separate each item with &

 

e.g

<a href="www.example.com/welcome.php?id=Chinese&anotherarg=somethingelse">Text</a>

 

I've never heard of putting &...you only have to put the & to separate the variables.

 

<a href="www.example.com/welcome.php?id=Chinese&anotherarg=somethingelse">Text</a>

 

You may be able to do it both ways...I'm not sure.

[Davo]

Hey KrisNz

 

Thanks for that. I only want to pass one variable through the address bar as the other variable is 'embedded' - eg. Contact page has <? $Request='Contact'; ?> at the top. This makes the contact button red when clicked. However I now want to add (?id=Chinese) to that buttons link if the user chooses the Chinese translation.

So the user chooses Chinese translation and all page links will have id=Chinese added to them.

I want the contact button to react to both variables - firstly turn red because the contact button has been clicked and secondly pass the information that the user selected Chinese as their language. Is this possible?!

[teng84]

I've never heard of putting &...you only have to put the & to separate the variables.

& is entity name of &

[pocobueno1388]

I've never heard of putting &...you only have to put the & to separate the variables.

& is entity name of &

 

Oh duh! I should have known that, hah. Well, why not just take the shortcut and only write & instead of the entity? ;P

[KrisNz]

try putting &copy=1 and see what happens! & is the html entity for & and the correct way to put an ampersand in an html document, it wont validate if you don't.

[pocobueno1388]

it wont validate if you don't

 

In that case, it's understandable. I've never messed with HTML validation, so I'm not too knowledgeable with that.

[Davo]

Hey everyone

 

Thanks for your replies - is it possible to do something like this? (Have two variables determine how the button would act.)

 

if($a =='Contact' AND $b == 'variable2')

{

$button="<a href=\"Contact.php?id=variable2\"><img src='Images/NavProjectsRed.gif' border='0'></a>";

[Davo]

or else could I do something like this:

 

$ProcessImage="<a href=\"Process.php<? echo $MY_VARIABLE ?>\"><img src='Images/NavProcessWhite.gif' border='0'></a>";

 

Have an echo within a line like that?!

 

Thanks

[Davo]

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