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Can a hyperlink value be put into a $_GET variable?

 
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Can a hyperlink value be put into a $_GET variable?
matt-the-mash
23 Nov, 2006 - 08:03 AM
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Hi,

I am creating a new navigation system for a website that uses pop-out menue's (which work fine). What i want to do is give the user a choice of contact methods:
phone
email
post

Instead of directing to another page, i wanted to just display the required method in a table/div etc within the current page.

So can i put the hyperlink value for 'telephone' into a the php variable $_GET to then echo the required method which i will store in a variable?

I expect this couold be done with javascript but i know even less of that than PHP!! biggrin.gif

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<ul>
          <li><a href="???" id="c1" name="Telephone" title="By Telephone">By Telephone</a>
          <li><a href="???" id="c2" name="email" title="By Email">By Email</a>
          <li><a href="???" id="c3" name="post" title="By Post">By Post</a>
            
          </li>
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23 Nov, 2006 - 08:07 AM
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Yes it's the stuff that follows the ? symbol within the URL. Seperate multiple variableName/value pairs with a & symbol.

Example: http://example.com/somepage.php?variableName=aValue&anotherVariable=anotherValue
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23 Nov, 2006 - 08:20 AM
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Im not sure i follow.

What i have is a hyperlink called 'telephone', and when i click this link i want the value 'telephone' to be assigned to the $_GET variable. This i can then use in an IF statement to test
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IF $_GET[''] = 'telephone' {
echo "phone number";
}


I can assign the $_GET variable using form values, i just cant get my head around assigning hyperlink selections.
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23 Nov, 2006 - 08:28 AM
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I'm not sure what you're not getting. If you use the URL http://example.com/index.php?telly=3202351446 you can access the value of telly by using $_GET['telly'].

More on URI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

The syntax of a URI:
<scheme name> : <hierarchical part> [ ? <query> ] [ # <fragment> ]
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23 Nov, 2006 - 09:17 AM
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Cheers hotsnoj.

That now works fine.
Another lesson learnt!!!
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