Bryn Owen Design

The best way to use LinkList is on a single page that accepts parameters in the URL like this: .../index.php?photo=2 or index.php?page=1 etc. This section will describe how to do that step by step …

1) You will have a single page that contains everything:
a LinkList Stack of buttons
some way of decoding the parameter that is used in the URL (more to come on that below)
all the content you want to show for each button

2) Create this page and go to the Page Inspector (i)
make sure the file name ends with ".php"
let's refer to this page from now on as index.php, although you can name it anything

3) On this page add the LinkList Stack and look at the options for it ...
choose the Button count (the different content you want to show for each button)
set Link URL style to index.php?page=1 (this means this page is re-used when you click each button - no additional pages needed)
the Base link URL is just the address of this page, you can use index.php (but you could also say http://www.something.com/abc/index.php)
choose a Page variable - let's use "product" here, so the buttons will call this page with index.php?product=1 or 2, etc.
other options are for styling and you can experiment with those

4) Now that we have buttons, we want to handle the button clicks that call this same page

Two ways:
a) The hard way: write your own PHP code surrounding some Stacks ...

First add an HTML Stack and enter the PHP code below (note the "1" is the value)

<?php
$var = $_GET['product'];
if ($var == "1") {
?>

Then, add your Stacks next below this HTML Stack, such as a picture and some text.

Finally, below those add another HTML Stack and close the PHP conditional above:

<?php
}
?>

b) The easy way: use my PostSwitch Stack (a separate purchase)
Just add the PostSwitch Stack,
Enable GET (to look for a parameter in the URL)
Set the Argument name to match the one from LinkList, “product” in this example
Choose a value of product to look for, starting with 1 (your first product and first LinkList number)
Then drop in the Stacks you want to show, like images or text.

5) Repeat step 4 by adding code or PostSwitch Stacks to handle each value of the page variable “product” 1, 2, 3, ...

I don't want to require any hidden purchases, so option 4a should work. Also, the LinkList Stack can be used in a second way: you can have separate pages like index1.html, index2.html, index3.html where each of these has your product information photo and text, and no PHP is required. You can really choose any of these methods, but I prefer using the PostSwitch Stack myself - much nicer looking and easier to maintain.