Question

I have a software downloads website thenoblesite.com. Whenever a new version of a software is released(for e.g Google Chrome v17.0.1), I have to change the heading,title to new version name i.e.

<title>Google Chrome v17.0.1</title>
<h3>Google Chrome v17.0.1</h3>

and the download link to:

<a href="thenoblesite.com/downloads/googlechromev17.0.1-thenoblesite.com.exe"> Download Google Chrome v17.0.1</a>

Also I have to change the file name as I have to add “-thenoblesite.com” with every file name.

Doing all these changes is time consuming and some times missing any of these changes or misstyping creates a lot of problem/confusion.

Q1.Is there any way in PHP to do all these changes(heading,title,and download link) by just changing one field?

Q2. Can I use PHP to automatically add “-thenoblesite.com” with the downloaded file name “googlechromev17.0.1.exe” so that the actual filename on server folder remain the same(i.e. googlechromev17.0.1.exe) but whenever someone download it, it automatically become “googlechromev17.0.1-thenoblesite.com.exe”?

(Note: I have used Google chrome just as an example to claify my question. I do agree with people who think that every software should be downloaded from its official page)

Answer 1

For the mySQL query, use something like this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT id, version, url, etc FROM software ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

Upon getting the result, echo it to your page like this:

<title><?php echo $row[0]['version'] ?></title>
<h3><?php echo $row[0]['version'] ?></h3>

Of course you will need a different query for each of your software but at least it gives you a general idea of how fetching and output is handled on the beginner level. For more info visit this link:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php