html - Retrieving id from database displayed and passing onto other page

Question

I'm displaying the contents of a database on a particular page(recipe names). I'd like each recipe to be a link which opens to another page. I understand I would have to obtain the recipe id for that particular recipe, pass the id to another page and print the recipe contents onto that page. I would like to know how to retrieve the unique recipe id of a particular recipe ON BEING CLICKED upon mainly.

Answer 1

If you are displaying the contents of a database on a particular page, then definitely you are using a server side scripting like like ASP or PHP or some JavaScript + AJAX. I am quite unclear about that. But for your question, I can tell you one thing that, if, suppose you are using PHP, then you may display the link as;

echo '<a href="yourpage.php?recipeid='.$recepeid.'">'.$recipiename.'</a>';

where $recipeid is the variable carrying recipe id and $recipiename is the name of your recipe. In your PHP file (yourpage.php), you may catch this data like $_GET["recipeid"]

You may try a Google search for tutorials.

Use;

$strLink = '<a href="recipedisp.php?id='.$row['id'].'">'.$strName.'</a>';
echo "<li>".$strLink."</li>";

Don't use spaces.