Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 08/25/05 11:08

On Wed, August 24, 2005 11:40 am, George B wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>> On Tue, August 23, 2005 3:52 pm, George B wrote:
>>
>>>You know on forums when you make a topic right away it makes like a
>>>new
>>>link to your topic. How do you do that in PHP?
>>
>>
>> <?php
>> //Untested code:
>> if (isset($_POST['new_topic'])){
>> $new_topic = $_POST['new_topic'];
>> $new_topic = mysql_escape_string($new_topic);
>> $query = "insert into topics (topic) values ('$new_topic')";
>> $insert = mysql_query($query) or die (mysql_error());
>> $topic_id = mysql_insert_id();
>> echo "<a
>> href=\"topics.php?topic_id=$topic_id\">$_POST[new_topic]</a>";
>> }
>> ?>
>>
>> http://php.net/mysql_insert_id
>> is probably the piece of the puzzle you were missing.
>>
> How did you get this in your link?
>
> topics.php?topic_id=$topic_id
>
> I cant figure.

This assumes you have a script named "topics.php" and that script uses
GET parameter "topic_id" to determine which Topic to display in your
Forum.

It was only a WILD GUESS as to how your forum topics would be
displayed, really... Well, not totally a wild guess, since that's
pretty much how they all work, though they will use different names
for stuff:

forum.php?id=$topic_id
view.php?thread_id=$topic_id
show.php?subject_id=$topic_id
..
..
..

Perhaps you need to set this aside for a while, and work on showing a
list of topics, and the display page for something chosen from that
list.

After you've written that, the link to put in there gets a LOT easier
to figure out.

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