what is gid=314???

[DAL79]

Hi,
I'm looking over some code trying to teach myself
and was wondering what gid=314 was here...

<a class="headline" href="javascriptopUp('http://www.blah.info/blah/gallery.php?gid=314', 'Gallery', '519',
'500')">Heading</a></b><br>Sub Heading

What is gid and what is the 314?

Anybody know?
Cheers,
Dal79

[sypher]

gallery id

He has just named his id field in the database gid thats all it is.

You can name it anything.

[DAL79]

Can you explain a little about this if poss?

[sypher]

You must of learn Access at some point?

An id field signifies each record in a table.
id
1
2
3
etc.

You can name the id field whatever you want.
So the url basically fetches record number 314 and displays the info.

[Sheepymot]

It doesn't have to represent an SQl table. It could represent a file called "1.html", or "1.php".

Take this code, for example:

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<?php
 
if (!empty($_GET['gid'])) {
 
 $gid = $_GET['gid'];
 
}
 
else {
 
 $gid = 1;
 
}
 
if (file_exists("importantstuff/" . $gid . ".php")) {
 
 include("importantstuff/" . $gid . ".php");
 
}
 
else {
 
 include("404_error.php");
 
}
 
?>

Just a nice little (heh) example for you. It basically checks whether the GET['gid'] parameter has a value, if it does, turn it into a variable and include a page if it exists.

Hope that helps.

[Tim356]

Some confusing explanations there for you. It's alot simpler than all of that. It's a variable that he's passing between pages. 'gid' is the variable name, and '314' is the value of that variable.

You can access the variable by using

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$_GET['gid'];