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Graeme Laverty
Graeme Laverty

Reputation: 9

Embedding variable text into php/html web page

I am trying to create a web page that has an area that displays different text, depending on what link was clicked. I have looked at if else code, embedding objects, on click command.

Here is some basic code I have put together. Can somebody let me know if I am on the right track or where I am going wrong. I also think I need to use AJAX but I am not familiar with that.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

<table width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
   <tr>
       <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step1" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 1</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
        </td>
        <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step2" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 2</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
         </td>
         <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step3" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 3</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
         </td>
       </tr>
    </table>

    <br />

    <object type="text/html" width="80" height="150" border="thin">
       <?php
         if( onclick = "#Step1" ) {
            echo (i hope this work );
         } else { }
       ?>
    </object>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 185

Answers (1)

Zack
Zack

Reputation: 1189

Do you mean to have different areas show up for different links? Here is what code would look like for that:

<table width="80%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
   <tr>
<?php
switch ($_GET['step']) {
case 1:
?>
       <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step1" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 1</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
        </td>
<?php
break;
case 2:
?>
        <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step2" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 2</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
         </td>
<?php
break;
case 3:
?>
         <td>
           <div align="center">
              <a href="#Step3" class="menuNav">
                  <strong>Step 3</strong>
              </a>
           </div>
         </td>
<?php
break;
}
       </tr>
    </table>

This is a very simplistic way to display separate portions of markup for different urls. You can then have your users move on to different links to show different blocks (/script.php?step=1, etc)

Upvotes: 0

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