I'm not sure how well i'll be able to explain this, but here goes. I have a website for attractions. Let's say that one of my categories is Historical villages. When the user opens the Historical villages page he gets a list of villages displayed from the database. The way I display them is: Name plus a picture of the attraction. What I want to do is unable the user to click on of the villages (by making the name and picture a clickable link) and the user to be redirected to a page that will run a php script that will display more information from the database about the selected village. That way I will only have one page for all attractions that will display different information every time a user selects something different, instead of hardcoding all the pages.
This is my code displaying the lits of villages:
$sql = "SELECT `Name`, `Location`, `Description`, `Airport`, `imglink`, `pagelink` "
. "FROM `attractions` "
. "WHERE `Category`='HistV'";
$result = mysql_query($sql, $link);
if (!$result) {
echo "DB Error, could not query the database
";
echo 'MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error();
exit;
}
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
echo $row['Name'];
echo "<img src='" . $row['imglink'] . "'>";
}
Do any of you have any suggestions on how to make this output a link and the make it run the PHP to show the users selection?
Your while condition changed to like this,
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
/* For example ,
$row['pagelink'] must contains the pagelink as belowed here
/viewVillage.php?village_id=1
/viewVillage.php?village_id=2 and so on. */
echo "<a href='" . $row['pagelink'] . "'>"
. $row['Name'] .
. "<img src='" . $row['imglink'] . "'>
</a>";
}
This will generate your list of villages like this,
<a href="/viewVillage.php?village_id=1">
Village name 1
Village Image 1
</a>
<a href="/viewVillage.php?village_id=2">
Village name 2
Village Image 2
</a>
<a href="/viewVillage.php?village_id=3">
Village name 3
Village Image 3
</a>
.....
When you click on any of the link, it will redirected to viewVillage.php
page. Now you can get the particular village using $_GET['village_id']
viewVillage.php
if(isset($_GET['village_id']]) && $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'GET' ) {
$villageId = $_GET['village_id'];
// Then do your stuff over here
}
On your current page
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
/* For example ,
$row['pagelink'] should be a village id */
echo "<a href='/attractions.php?village=" . $row['pagelink'] . "'>"
. $row['Name'] .
. "<img src='" . $row['imglink'] . "'>
</a>";
}
Now it would print something like
<a href="/attractions.php?vilage=2"> Vilage Name <img src="urltoimage"></a>
When you click on this link you will be sent to a file called "attractions.php"
Create this file in the same directory and it should have the following php in it
<?php
$villageId = $_GET['village']; //this gets the id of the village from the url and stores
//it in a variable
//now that you have the id of the village, perform your sql lookup here
//of course you will have to fill this is, as I don't know your actual table fields and names
$sql = "SELECT * FROM Attractions WHERE villageID = `$villageID`";
//now perform the query, loop through and print out your results
?>
Does this make sense?