how do you do that www.blah.com/index.php?id=blah
i used to know but i forget... and can u make those links like text files and have the html included into a table?

basically i want the content/html inside a table to change using php when clicking different links.

the link www.blah.com/index.php?id=blah doesn't work and neither www.blah.com/index.php

maybe someone can help you but he needs to see it

i hope that wasnt serious... and i was wondering how to do the index.php?= stuff...

I think the problem is that no one is sure what you're asking.

Because of the order in which the page is interpreted by the server, you cannot use a variable as a file name to include content

include ($_GET['id'] . ".txt") - would not work.

You can set conditionals though, specific files are displayed depending on the variable in the querystring.

$id = $_GET['id']

if ($id == "blah") {
include ("blah.txt");
} elseif ($id == "blahblah") {
include ("blahblah.txt");
} else {
include ("default.txt");
}


If you have a lot of content that you want to use this way, that's extremely tedious. You might want to structure a database with an id, linkname, content then dynamicly create your menu and links and pull the content from the database on the fly.

I agree with witchblade but if you are doing it as a learning experience, working with files and such then I would look into php's filesystem functions in particular file_get_contents(). This nifty function will read files, even web address' into a string, file() however will read it into an array.