Passing a string to a linked dynamic page?

[bluedollar]

I have a peice of code that displays a timetable for a conference:

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function listtimetable() {

//echo'<table border=&quot;0&quot;>';
echo'<dl>';
$currentdate='0000-00-00';

foreach ($this->idorder as $val) {
#Find values from timetable
$SQL = &quot;select startdate from timetable where timetable_id = '$val'&quot;;
$start = $this->obconnect->selectcol($SQL,&quot;startdate&quot;
$SQL = &quot;select enddate from timetable where timetable_id = '$val'&quot;;
$end = $this->obconnect->selectcol($SQL,&quot;enddate&quot;
$SQL = &quot;select title from timetable where timetable_id = '$val'&quot;;
$title = $this->obconnect->selectcol($SQL,&quot;title&quot;
$SQL = &quot;select speaker_id from timetable where timetable_id = '$val'&quot;;
$speaker = $this->obconnect->selectcol($SQL,&quot;speaker_id&quot;

#format dates and times
$temp = explode (&quot; &quot;,$start);
$temp1d = explode (&quot;:&quot;,$temp[1]);
$temp2 = explode(&quot; &quot;,$end);
$temp2d = explode (&quot;:&quot;,$temp2[1]);
$date = $temp[0];
$time1 = ''.$temp1d[0].':'.$temp1d[2].'';
$time2 = ''.$temp2d[0].':'.$temp2d[2].'';

#Display date
if ($currentdate != $date) {
$etime = explode (&quot;-&quot;,$date);
$ttime = mktime(0,0,0,$etime[1],$etime[2],$etime[0]);
$ddate = date(&quot;l, n, M, Y&quot;, $ttime);
echo'<dt><b>'.$ddate.'</b></dt>';
}
#Display time
if ($speaker==&quot;&quot {
echo'<dd>'.$time1.'-'.$time2.' '.$title.'</dd>';
}
else {
echo'<dd>'.$time1.'-'.$time2.' <A href=&quot;&quot;>'.$title.'</A></dd>';
}

$currentdate = $date;
}

echo'</dl>';

}

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This works fine and produces (example) output as follows:

Tuesday, 8, Aug, 2003
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
12:00-13:00 Lunch
19:00-20:00 <A>Computer Graphics</A>

If the timetable event involves speakers then a link is provided to a page displaying info about the speakers, eg. in the example above Computer Graphics has a link to a page that shows info about speakers that are speaking at 19:00-20:00 about computer graphics.

QUESTION

I need to work out how to have a link to a dynamically created page, that will contain info about speakers. Basically what I need to work out is how to pass the string $speaker (containing speakers id`s) to the page (so that I know which speakers info to display on that page).

If anyone has any ideas, your help would be invaluable.

Thanks

Dan

 

[sleipnir214]

Make the href attributes of your links to the detail pages of the form &quot;

http://theserver/thescript.php?speakerid=<anumber>&quot;

then have thescript.php get the value from $_GET.

Use session variables.

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