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Tech Off - Passing php variables via "a name" links - Help?

Cybermagellan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:17:25 GMT

I'm trying to write a website that is dependant on being able to make a name links...so....

foo
bar

However I want the content inside the bar div to give php variable information....thus...

I wanted to try to form my link as such...

bar

However it isn't working....any ideas?

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JChung2006 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:38:51 GMT

Cybermagellan wrote:
I wanted to try to form my link as such...
bar
However it isn't working....any ideas?

Try:

bar

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evildictaitor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:50:29 GMT

Browsers dont go back to the server when you give them an internal ("#") link. Even when you think adding get-parameters would work, it often doesn't due to caching, so you can either

a) Add random data to the end of the link:\
link
b) Use javascript nastyness:
link

If your php page returns a constant result (up to arguments) then the caching problem goes away, and you can just use ?get=args#internallink. Note that the ? must come before the #.

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RichardRudek — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:52:45 GMT

Cybermagellan wrote:

bar

I've never actually used PHP before, so obviously, take this with a (huge) 3 carrot grain of salt, but it looks like your trying to get PHP to work within a string constant.

I'd have thought it would have been better to have PHP return the entire (computed) string instead. Just a thought.

EDIT:

Oh stupid me. You mean from the client, passing data back to your server using URL variables.

In other words, that fact that the server is using PHP isn't significant. I was looking at it from the Server side, and thinking you were using some kind of wierd PHP shortcut syntax that I'd never seen before... move along, nothing to see here...

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Cybermagellan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:38:09 GMT

Actually this was for an iPhone web app....and that wasn't working...as it turned out I'm just going to use PHP vars and create the page as needed.

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W3bbo — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:27:19 GMT

Cybermagellan wrote:

Actually this was for an iPhone web app....and that wasn't working...as it turned out I'm just going to use PHP vars and create the page as needed.

Just use $_SESSION

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Mark Wisecarver — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:20:21 GMT

I'd rather be mauled by mosquitoes that write PHP....
...but it is interesting that Microsoft has taken the reigns.