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PHP

Ryan O'Connor
Ryan O'Connor
11,282 Points
Posted by Ryan O'Connor
Ryan O'Connor
11,282 Points

compile multiple pages with unique content

I'm building an informative website. I have a page that lists 'courses' or 'tracks' which come from an associative array. I want those tracks to go to a 'details' page. I want the details page to compile the HTML for me but I can't figure out how to store the information.
I could...... 1) create a new course.php in the dir for each course. But that seems time consuming. 2) create an array that contains the HTML as a value 3) create a database that contains the HTML

What is the best way to store the HTML and call it to a 'details' page?

1 Answer

Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points
Sergey Podgornyy
Sergey Podgornyy
20,660 Points

Best solution for this is to create a database in which you will store info about all tracks. Because your array will grow up in time and it will be harder to iterate through it with each time and although work with it.

For example you can create page called all_Tracks.html which contain buttons(lets just call it buttons :) ) with name of the tracks. If you press on any button(which will contain link like this http://localhost/details.php?course=PHP) it will redirect you to a page called details.php?course=name. After that you can get course name from $_GET['course'] and send query to the database for info about this course. Depending of what you received from query you will display the result using same styling but with different colors and text that are suitable for track. And there is no need to use multiply pages.

It isn't an ideal example of how it should be. But it will help you learn new things and technologies ;)