I was wondering, im completely new to using PHP. All i want to do is enable my website to use php instead of standard urls.

So instead of www.test.co.uk/pictures.html

it would come up with something like www.test.co.uk/index.php?id=3

just so the actual html file names are not there.... any ideas? any help would be very much appreciated i have to do this for 35 .html files :S

Thanks in advance

Storm

So you want a quick way of changing your files to php? Dont thin there is one. you will need to change the extensions manually...

Does your current host support PHP?
If all you want to do is change your html files to php files then just rename the file extension.

Just out of interest, why would you want to do that?

Basically, all i wanted to do was make it so that people cant see the html files and names. i know that you have to create a php file that contains all the actual links. but i just didn't know how to code it in php

ohhhhh. so you want to hide the file names... Sorry.
Is there nothing on hot scripts? (www.hotscripts.com)

maybe this would help
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/28938.html not sure if its what your looking for but sounds similar...

You could create a basic php file that includes a page according to an id number.
You could work this into a mySQL database, but here's the simple version:

<?
// Define URLS
$1 = "http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html";
$2 = "http://www.thisdomain.com";
$3 = "http://www.anotherdomain.co.uk";

// Include URL
$idno = $_POST['id'];
include("$$idno");
?>

Simply visit the php page, such as yourdomain.com/redirect.php?id=2
and the code gets the URL and displays it.

The reason for the ("$$idno") is because just using $idno will only display the number, $$idno will display the $ before the number, making $2, which then evaluates to the URL.

Ask your host if you have mod_rewrite.
If you do, there is a better and faster way to do this.