Posted by rich on 05/17/06 05:11

I am working on a page with a right column that I want to use for
navigation. In this right column I am using the below code to set a
value for the link. I am using the variable $test right now.
I want to click on the link and when the value is set to a certain
value, say 1, I want the script to run and load a page based on a
switch case. This way I can use different links for navigation that
will load different forms and areas of my application. So here is the
code for the link line.

printf("<a href=\"%s?test=%s\">%s</a><br>\n", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],"1",
"Click Here");

I then want a switch statement to the effect

switch($test) {
case "1" :
Load form1
case "2" :
Load form2
case "3" :
Load form3;
}

To test out my idea I wrote this little test script to see if I could
get the response I wanted and it didn't work. I wanted to click on the
link and then get the value of test to echo back at me on the page.
Here is that code. I called the file testlink.php

<?php

printf("<a href=\"%s?test=%s\">%s</a><br>\n", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'],"1",
"Click Here");

if (isset($test)){
echo "$test</br>\n";
}
?>
I get the right info in my url in my browser,

http://localhost/testlink.php?test=1

But I don't get the echo on the screen. Can anyone help?

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