quote:
Originally posted by methos
That's done something called the "get" function...
In php, you have assign variables to the end of the url and then call them back using the GET function, so to create an easy include function, you would have your links changing that variable, and a block of code to check what that variable is, so for example, if we had the variable "page" and the includes 1.php and 2.php and the variables for those pages being "one" and "two" respectively, we would have the big block of code to check what the variable is:
php code:
$page = (isset($_GET['page'])) ? $_GET['page'] : "";
if($page=="" or $page=="one"){
include("1.php");
}
elseif($page=="two"){
include("2.php");
}
This uses the GET function and sets the variable $page to the value that has been set in the URL (for example www.bbq.com?page=one would mean the variable page is set to one), then checks what the variable is, and if the variable is one or not set then it includes 1.php and if the variable is two it includes 2.php.
To change this variable (ie, when you click a link) you use the following code:
php code:
<a href="?page=two">goto page 2</a>
This is a self-explanatory line of code.
This method can also be used to string variables and can be incredibly useful. To string variables, you just set the variables in the same way. If you need any more help feel free to post 
That method is relatively similair to what i've used before, but before, all you had to do was list the different page names, link to the directory the files were in and it would then present them files in a similair fashion to how you did it, hope you understand.
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