To Mendhak

[duc]

Why do you do this? Is it somehow easier to manage? I was just wondering. I was just wondering. I see it done on alot of webpages and I was wonderin what its for

your links are like http://www.mendhak.com/paranormal/ufo/show.php?id=10

instead of making it http://www.mendhak.com/paranormal/ufo/whatever.php or html

[The Hobo]

It probably pulls information out of a database, or calls a certain function in his show file.

Storing records in a database and pulling them out...that's a much better method than having 0001.html through 1895.html.

[The Hobo]

Hope you don't mind me trying answer. I am not of frog kind.

[kows]

yeah, it's like hobo said. I do the same thing, because it is a hell of a lot easier to make a dynamic script that will automatically call the database upon request than taking up server space and your own time to have 0001.php through 9999.php for article numbers.

[mendhak]

They've answered correctly. All I had to do was create show.php, and based upon the query string (id=10), I pull up information. Saves up on a lot of coding, especially if you want to modify something.

VBForums has the example right there for you. You can do a forumdisplay.php?forumid=1, and a forumdisplay.php?forumid=3. The page stays the same, actions are different.

HTH

[duc]

Originally posted by mendhak
They've answered correctly. All I had to do was create show.php, and based upon the query string (id=10), I pull up information. Saves up on a lot of coding, especially if you want to modify something.

VBForums has the example right there for you. You can do a forumdisplay.php?forumid=1, and a forumdisplay.php?forumid=3. The page stays the same, actions are different.

HTH

alrighty then, thx