The way people would come upon this page is by typing something like: www.somedomain.com/cat
cat would be a symlink to a php page that would bring in 'cat's information from the database, hence displaying cat's 'web page.' I thought this would be pretty cut and dried but as usual, I am wrong. --- In [email protected], James Keeline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Marian Briones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That didn't work either. > > > > I don't know what to do. > > > > If I can figure out a way to pass the directory name to an index.php > > page in a directory I'm pointing to that would enable me to have the > > php gather the info out of my database > > You have four basic ways to send information into a PHP page: > > GET variables in the URL (sometimes from a form or <A> link) > POST variables from a form or cURL > COOKIE variables stored on the browser > SESSION variables stored on the server with an ID supplied from a browser > COOKIE or a GET variable > > Somehow you have to set one of these and read it in your index.php page. We > don't have enough details of this part of your project to know how people come > into the page. > > I may not be able to reply again since I have "real" work to do. :) > > James > _____ > > James D. Keeline > http://www.Keeline.com http://www.Keeline.com/articles > http://Stratemeyer.org http://www.Keeline.com/TSCollection > > http://www.ITeachPHP.com -- Free Computer Classes: Linux, PHP, etc. > Summer Semester Begins Jun 20 -- New Classes Start Every Few Weeks. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hcgc34l/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1705005703:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123279508/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Community email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shortcut URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
