Menu items

[shop73]

In web pages I found menu with this links

example.php?category=web
example.php?category=music
example.php?category=game

When I click menu button web (example.php?category=web) it opens this page in part of web page. Next buton (music) opens music page in same place of web page etc...

What's it? How to make this?

Thanks.

 

[vacunita]

Its Called PHP. Its a server side language.

What it does is have the contents of the pages or in this case categories stored somewhere like a Database or content files. It reads from those and displays the appropriate information in the page depending on the value of the category variable.

For this to work, you will have to make sure your server supports PHP.



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[traingamer]

What's it?

There is php code on the server which serves up a different page depending on the category parameter.

How to make this?

Learn basic php programming.

 

[shop73]

Traingamer, can You write one simple example for me?

 

[traingamer]

No.

Greg
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

 

[vacunita]

Basically its just checking the variable and reading the appropriate content.

However, you still haven't actually made sure your webserver supports it. You need the PHP parser on the server for it to work.

It wont just work like HTML or Javascript would.

If you don't know whether it supports it or not.
Put this in a file and call it phpinfo.php

<?PHP
phpinfo();
?>

Then Call it up in a browser. If it shows you a whole bunch of information in a table. Then PHP is installed in your server. If not then it isn't and you can't use the technique.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.