Help with databases choice

Junior WebHelper Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

Hi I have been using a perl script to run some random links but I would like to use Php I have a script to do it but I need to change it a bit. The problem I have is I would like to be able to use random_url.php?jokes random_urlphp?stories etc where jokes and stories are flatfile databases my problem is how to tell the script to use the databases

I need to change

$RANDOM_URL_FILE = "/home/htdocs/users/mysite/mysite.com/files/database";

what do I need to instead of database so it will know which file to pick in perl I used $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'} but this does not work so what is the php version

Thanks in advance

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:36 pm (20 years, 9 months ago)

change it so the query string is something like random_url.php?db=stories, then use $random_url_file = '/home/htdocs/users/mysite/mysite.com/'.$_GET['db'];

Junior WebHelper Joined: 21 Jul 2003 Posts: 2

Thank You Odhinn That worked Greats. Very Happy