{"id":2438,"date":"2007-12-28T04:42:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2008-01-04T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T06:21:47","slug":"speaking-in-tongues-dynamically-updated-lists-of-links-in-php","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2438\/speaking-in-tongues-dynamically-updated-lists-of-links-in-php\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in tongues: Dynamically updated lists of links in PHP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get dynamic, shall we? There are a lot of things you can say about PHP — and some of them are even safe for work. But, at bottom, PHP is a working stiff’s programming language for producing dynamic web pages.<\/p>\n

What’s a dynamic web page? It’s a page that reflects a user’s actions or editing without requiring manual editing of each little line of HTML. In the world of AJAX coding, web pages are becoming so dynamic that they seem to mimic the behavior of stand-alone complied applications. Calm down. We’re not going to do anything that sexy. And while we will actually be introducing real bona fide PHP programming in this post, you can dial down the palpitations: We will be doing precisely one line<\/i> of PHP programming. Everything else will be familiar old HTML.<\/p>\n

Okay then: Go take a look at this article on HR 3915<\/a>. Brian Brady wrote that post, and it was one of our most popular entries this year. BloodhoundBlog is the home of big stories on the RE.net, and, when we cover a big story, I do everything I can to make sure that readers — especially readers arriving from search engines or by hard clicks from non-RE.net sites — don’t miss the full extent of our coverage.<\/p>\n

So, if you scroll down in that post, you’ll see a bullet list of links to other posts with the heading “More on HR 3915.”<\/p>\n

That list of links is done with PHP.<\/p>\n

The actual list is simply a file of plain vanilla HTML — no PHP programming. The file for this list of links is called HR3915.php. It looks like this:<\/p>\n

&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><B><I>More on HR\r\n3915:<\/I><\/B><UL>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.mortgageratesreport.com\/2007\/11\/\r\n15\/daily-kos-on-hr-3915-mortgage-industry-set-to\"\r\ntarget=\"_blank\">Daily Kos on HR 3915: Mortgage\r\nIndustry Set To<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2217\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915:\r\nWhy Federally-Chartered Banks Get The Pass<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2200\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915:\r\nOpen Letter to Senator Dodd from a Veteran\r\nMortgage Originator<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.mortgageratesreport.com\/2007\/11\/\r\n08\/hr-3915-legislating-to-armageddon\"\r\ntarget=\"_blank\">HR 3915- Legislating to\r\nArmageddon<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/blownmortgage.com\/2007\/11\/07\/hr-3915-\r\nmortgage-reform-bill-passes-committee-with-\r\nimportant-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. 3915\r\nMortgage Reform Bill Passes Committee with\r\nImportant Changes<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2176\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915:\r\nAnti-Consumer Bank Protection Act of 2007<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2153\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915:\r\nExploring the Minds of the Enablers<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2112\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915 Is\r\nDangerous<\/a>\r\n<li><a\r\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/\r\nBloodhoundBlog\/?p=2103\" target=\"_blank\">HR 3915:\r\nMortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of\r\n2007<\/a>\r\n<\/UL><\/pre>\n
(It’s cleaner than that in real life. I had to introduce line breaks to keep it from screwing Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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