Hi CoffeeCuppers!

I've been at this web building game since 1994/5 when I got my first PC. Times have changed and so has the way websites are written.

I've started to come across a new page address appearing in the address bars of some websites and it seems to be an intruiging way to link to pages -

Can anyone tell me about the Pageid tag, and importantly, what is happening when I see addresses like this one:

www.anysite.com/?Pageid=2

what does the end bit relate to.. how does it work, what type of programming is it that uses this addressing and can CoffeeCup cope with this?

Any one have any ideas please, cos it may be beneficial to me, the way in which it works

Thanks

Phil

Hi Phil,

What you're seeing there is a dynamic URL generated through a query to a database. The exact type of language used would be a little hard to figure out, but my first guesses would be PHP or ASP. A few other languages can also generate URLs like this, but I'm not too familiar with web development yet.

Anything you see after the '?' character is the query. This is the string used by the PHP/ASP script to find what it needs to within the database. Again, there are different types of databases available, such as MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.

The HTML Editor doesn't interact directly with databases, but you can still use the Code Editor tab to create these scripts and code the pages to look for this type of data.