Web page template using the address bar

[UFG]

Okay so I'm sure this has been gone over before, but I tried searching and I couldn't find anything about it probably because I have no idea what this is really called.

Basically, I want to have a web page template, say "gallery.ph p". And I have an image, say "canyon.jpg ". What I want to happen is I want to be able to put "http://blahblah.com/gallery.php?=ca nyon" in my address bar and when i go to that website it has the gallery.php template with canyon.jpg featured in it.

I hope it's simple, but I'm really bad at figuring stuff out and I've been searching everywhere for it. I just don't know what to search for, haha... Anyway, any help you guys can give me would be great :)

[developing]

search for the 'get' functino in php

there is an awsome article on this on this site too

[Atli]

Hi, UFG, and welcome to TSDN!

This is a very simple thing to do. As developing suggested, you want to use the HTTP GET protocol.

That's as simple as adding a '?varname=value ' to your url.
For example, if you were to create a page called 'test.php' and link to this page, adding '?name=Atli' to the URL, you can access the value of the 'name' variable by using the $_GET array.

For example:
[code=php]
//---
// test.php
//---
<?php
if(isset($_GET['name'])) {
echo "Welcome, ". $_GET['name'];
}
else {
echo "No name was passed in the URL.";
}
?>
[/code]

This would print out: Welcome Atli.

[UFG]

Hey! Thanks A TON! seriously. That saves me like 3 hours worth of pagemaking! Plus now I can use it for a ton of other stuff that I have planned in the future :]
You guys are the best, seriously.

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It works! :D