Create a url so users can bookmark Page uses many random includes

system · February 25, 2012, 3:40pm

Hello,

Built with php files, it has random articles displayed when refreshed.
If a user wants to find an article they have already seen they would have to refresh the page until it appears again. How can I give each page layout its own value, for each possible layout when refreshed.
basically a user can bookmark the page and come back to it as it was displayed when they saw it rather than it refreshing again.
Eventually I might have 4 headlines all displaying different random headlines which will result in a lot of possible out comes?

thanks

mally

ErnieAlex · February 25, 2012, 11:19pm

Well, you could use arguments. Like “www.mysite.com/?article1=2,article2=122,article3=123,article4=234”.
You could save four numbers inside your database for their username. Or, a list of let’s say 10 groups of four numbers pointing at 10 different groups of four articles. Add a button to allow going back a group.

Just an idea, but, EVERYTHING is possible, just have to come up with the original idea of the layout.

Hope that helps to get you started…

cogga28 · February 26, 2012, 12:00am

cant you use the get method so the page is posted in the url like www.website.com?page=76

ErnieAlex · February 26, 2012, 1:11am

Yes, you can. If the user doesn’t clear his history. I didn’t think that was what you were asking.
To do that, you could post to yourself updating the four choices.

Laffin · February 26, 2012, 2:28pm

I would use a hex notation system. say four hex digits (total 65535 items)
so you can quickly check how many articles a user has requested on the bookmarked page

http://mysite.com/index.php?article=0001001a0e7b

as an example, with the above, i can pull all 3 articles, since I can determine articles requested by the length of the key given… Above I have a hex string of 12 characters, or 3 articles (4 character hex string per article).