PHP replicating pages

[system]

I’m relatively new to web design and was hoping someone could provide me a better solution to my problem. I tried not to leave anything out of my description…

I’m setting up a sales gallery. The gallery has over 700 images of different items for sale. Each image can be clicked on and it will link you to a page showing a larger version of that image along with details/a description of that item for sale. The format of each of the individual pages is identical to all of the others. The only difference is the image and description shown. I was wondering if there was a way to use PHP (or some other programming language) to avoid making 700 different html pages for each item – some way to just have it replace the image and description depending on which gallery image is clicked. If you could tell me which programming language (or other means) to use, what type of coding that is called (I was told to try PHP_include, but it doesn’t look like that will work - unless I’m misunderstanding how to use it), and any possible tutorials or descriptions you have, that would be great.

Thanks

[richei]

They usually don’t create individual pages for each item, they use mod rewrite to make it look like it. All its doing is pulling the information from the database using normal programming. So if you have an item called Gucci pumps under the shoes category, the actual url might look like index.php?cat=shoes&item=Gucci%pumps, but you’ll see site.com/shoes/Gucci_pumps.html.