Need help with $_GET

[Guest newb001]

Can someone tell me how to make the $_get Variable can post publicly so i dont have to edit html to update my news? I am a beginner of the php code and html in general! please i need help! Thank you in advance.

[The Reverend]

I'm not sure what you're asking. I think you may be confused a bit. $_GET variables are transmitted through urls but they generally aren't big strings of data. Are you using a database?

[dcole.ath.cx]

well if you update your news your going to have to edit the file... or a file.$test = $_GET['text']this will get blah from example.com?text=blah and put it into variable $test.Then you can print $test like: print $test;Then to link to the page you have to link to example.com?text=blahIf you change the content, you will have to change the link.

[ThePsion5]

Well, you may be able to do something similar to this if you only need to add small blurbs to your website:page.php?addnewsitem=true&title=thetitle&text=ashortblurboftextthatyoucanactuallytypeinabrowserwindow&auth=somevariableThen you could have a php function that looks something like this:

function checkForUpdates(){$add = $_GET['addnewsitem'];$title = $_GET['title'];$text = $_GET['text'];$auth = $_GET['auth'];if(strcmp($add, 'true') === 0 && isProperAuth($auth))  //If the proper authentication is used...{//add the text to the file that contains all the news}else{//display the news}}function isProperAuth($authentication){/*Check to see if the proper authentication was provided. Since the get values are stored in the browser history, you should use a variable that changes over time (that you can keep track of). Like, the hour and minute of your server plus 13 minutes in a weird format, for example. That way it won't be decoded unless someone is looking for it fairly hard, lol.*/}

However, i should stress that this method is not very secure...it wouldn't take much for someone to crack it even without your browser's history at their disposal. Just a warning.