Sorry, I am also new to the etiquette of these mail lists.
Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just
switch the text in the text area without actually changing pages. For
example, if the user clicks "About Us" (from the home page) the page doesn't
change, just the text (in the area I designated for text).
Since I have never used php before (but have read some online and in books)
what I was trying was:
if ($page == "home") {echo $home_text;}
elseif ($page == "about") {echo $about_text;}
...
else {echo $error_text;}
My problem is that I can't figure out how to get the link-click to assign
the value to the variable. I didn't try any php for that end because I
really didn't know where to begin.
Thanks for the replies and the help. I truly appreciate it.
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"Lars Torben Wilson" <larstorben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:36d4833b0901242313r435860b3q7f3f4f0eea621e2c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 2009/1/24 Christopher W <cweibel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> At least I hope it is simple...
>>
>> I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For
>> example, when a user clicks the "Home" button on my page it would cause
>> $page = "home"; or clicking the "About Us" button will set
>> $page="about_us";
>> etc.
>>
>> I think this should be fairly simple but being completely new to php I
>> just
>> cannot seem to get it right.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciate.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>
> Hi there,
>
> A good way to increase your chance of getting a useful response is to
> post the smallest example you can which clearly illustrates the
> problem you're having. In this case, you say you're not able to get
> this to work, but we could waste quite a bit of time trying to guess
> what you've tried and what didn't work.
>
> In the simplest case, you could make your menu items look something
> like this: <a href="target.html?page=home">Home</a> and then use $page
> = $_GET['page'] in your script, but I wouldn't recommend it since now
> you have user data floating around in your script and it will later
> become a pain in the butt to sanitize for security. For a learning
> script it'll be fine though.
>
>
> Torben
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