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Jul 08.2012

Hello everybody,

I am new to php.

Can anybody tell me were to find the original article when a link points to the following address /article_details.php?article_id=4

I went through different folders on the hosted space, but I could not find an article or document named 4.html

Thanks

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@tracknutJul 08.2012 — It's impossible for us to know. "4" is passed to the article_details.php script, and that script is apparently doing something with "4" to show you an article. You'd need to look though that script and see what it does with the parameter "article_id"

Dave
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@wehbesamaraauthorJul 08.2012 — Thanks for your reply.

the website contains 18 different documents, that simply appears to the viewer / user with the same background. what I am looking for is the documents / articles that range from

site/docs/article_details.php?article_id=1

to

site/docs/article_details.php?article_id=18

Why can not I find documents 1 to 18 in directories site/docs/


Where else could they be
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@rtretheweyJul 08.2012 — The contents of the articles are either stored in a database or pulled from other external files. That's why (a) they use a single .php script to fetch the article content and display it, and (b) changing the value for the 'id' parameter in the query string selects the article to be displayed. If the articles were not in a database, the site would be much more likely to use conventional HTML files and you would be able to locate them individually. You would need to examine the source code for 'article_details.php' in order to know exactly where the data comes from, and to do that you would need direct access to the files on the server.
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