[vox-tech] another php question

[David Margolis]

Peter,
I don't know about php3 vs php4, but it should be the same.  You just do
this.

<a href="display.php?carname=mustang">mustang</a>
<a href="display.php?carname=camero">camero</a>

then, in the display.php page, you simply parse this guy.

$filename = "$carname.dat"; (is interpolation supported by php3???)
or
$filename = $camero . ".dat"; (concantination is supported)


then

 fopen("$file", 'r+') or die("Couldn't open file!");  /*or whatever you
want to do with the filename */


Dave Margolis

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> suppose i have a set of data files -- for example, "mustang.dat",
> "camaro.dat", "beetle.dat", "jeep.dat", etc.
>
> the data files are all in the same format:
>
>
>    car name
>    years of production
>    dry weight
>    blue book value
>
>
> and i have an html document:
>
>
>    Click on your favorite car:
>    <UL>
>    <LI><A href="mustang.php3">mustang</A>
>    <LI><A href="beetle.php3">beetle</A>
>    ...
>    </UL>
>
> mustang.php3 and beetle.php3 are basically the same thing.  they simply
> read a file and display its contents, formatted in html.
>
> is there a way to pass a variable to a php3 href so i can have one file
> that does a reading, but with an argument of which data file to read?
> something like:
>
>
>    Click on your favorite car:
>    <UL>
>    <LI><A href="display_stats.php3" arg="mustang.dat">mustang</A>
>    <LI><A href="display_stats.php3" arg="beetle.dat">beetle</A>
>    ...
>    </UL>
>
> can i do this sort of thing with php3?
>
> pete
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