passing variable with href link?

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October 12th, 2003, 03:20 AM

TongueTied

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passing variable with href link?

This is really an html question

How can I set and pass a variable as part of an html reference? What I am trying to do is have a number of html hyperlinks all linking to the same php page. Depending on which hyperlink is selected, the target page will change depending on what the variable set to.

I thought the following would work but it doesn’t seem to:

From the referring page

<a href=”targetpage.php?selection=1”>Selection 1</a> |
<a href=”targetpage.php?selection=2”>Selection 2</a>

Now in the targetpage.php

php Code:

Original - php Code
<?php if ($_GET[‘selection’]=1){ //Do something } else { //Do something different } ?>

 
<?php
if ($_GET[‘selection’]=1){
    //Do something
} else {
    //Do something different
}
?>

With the above, I find the variable is always returning the value of 1 regardless of the selection.

Any suggestions on how I might get something like this to work?

October 12th, 2003, 03:51 AM

TongueTied

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RE: passing variable with href link?

Found the problem. I forgot to put is two "=" signs in the logical expression it should have read

php Code:

Original - php Code
<?php if($_GET["selection"]==1){ //Do something }else{ //Do something else } ?>

 
<?php
if($_GET["selection"]==1){
  //Do something
}else{
  //Do something else
}
?>

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