How do I create a "personalized" web page that reads parameters?

Factual Questions
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Hi,

Let’s say I want to create a web page that says, “Hello _____ congratulations on ______”.

But instead of the underlines, I want to display parameters that I would pass in the URL, so the web page would say (for example) “Hello Julie, congratulations on your 50th birthday”. I’d build the URL as part of a personalized email that I’d send out. I use Dreamweaver as an HTML authoring tool, and I have a server that runs PHP.

Any ideas?

And in case anyone snarky asks, no this isn’t homework. I’ve been out of college for almost two decades.

Thanks.

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Well, for the purposes you mention (just passing variables in, not setting up an input form, etc.), this example written in PHP will work:



<?php 
// example: http://www.yoursite.com/page.php?name=Bob&congrats=everything 

$username = $_GET['name']; 
$thing = $_GET['congrats'];
echo "Hello $username congratulations on $thing";

?>

Of course, you would do well to snaz it up a bit to suit your needs, but I hope this example gives you an idea of where to begin. :slight_smile:

3

That’s perfect atomicbadgerrace - I tried it out and that’s exactly what I needed. Thanks a lot!

4

Bob has been busy.

5

Ummm, I’m not sure what that means. Is that a reference to something?

6

Scratch that - I get it now - “Bob, congratulations on everything” equals “Bob has been busy”. Makes sense. Carry on.