Question

I am trying to create something similar to a blogging script.

I have one question which i couldn’t find on Stackoverflow.com

Suppose i have added Posts in my MySQL Database. And I am able to fetch them as well. But, How do I assign them their own unique page URL, and then fetch that particular post and display it on that page.

I want the URL to be similar to what is present in wordpress and other scripts.

Answer 1

assuming in your database there is a table called “posts” with an “id” column and a column “title”, etc … Then you could proceed like this:

<?php
$q = mysql_query('select id, title from posts') # select posts

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)) {
    //dumps article links
    echo sprintf("<a href='mysite.com/article.php?id=%s'>%s</a>", $row['id'], $row['title']);
}
?>
//so, at in article.php

<?php

$article_id = $_GET['id']; //Warning: filter user data

$article = mysql_query("select * from posts where id=$article_id") # select post by id collumn

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($q)) {
    //dump article content...    
}