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PHP

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Posted by Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

PHP When do i use ?n=1 ?

HI,

WHen do i use ?n=1 . Im i am making a quizz game, why or how is this useful or affected or rather why is this there?

Marcus Parsons
Marcus Parsons
15,719 Points

Hey Konrad! Can you post the code in question?

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Its this 

<a href="question.php?n=1" class="start">Start Quiz</a>

2 Answers

Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points
Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points

That is how you pass your script a GET variable. For example, if this link is clicked

<a href="question.php?n=1" class="start">Start Quiz</a>

You can grab the value of 'n' within you PHP script. For example:

<?php
/**
 * This is question.php
 */

echo $_GET['n'];/// Output = 1

Likewise, if you click on this link:

<a href="question.php?n=Hello" class="start">Start Quiz</a>

You will see this:

<?php
/**
 * This is question.php
 */

echo $_GET['n']; /// Output = 'Hello'
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Ahaaa so its like the "n" stand for and then i assign the value of it somewhere?

Or because this is connected to database with "choices" and "questions", this will conect to a database of questions "n" and then asign all the questions that have the number of id "1" ? something in that way?

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Or rather, the n is an assigment whcih if i put n=1 whill bring all the id's of the question 1 and if this is n=2 will bring all the id's of question 2 right?

Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points
Jose Soto
Jose Soto
23,407 Points

That's right. You got it.