How do I associate a value with a link in php?

Question

I want to have multiple links load the same php document but with different content and I figured the best way of doing this would be to have each link associated with a value and based upon that value write an if statement to decide which content to display but I don't know how to do that. If that is in fact not the best method I would like to know what is

how exactly do I use the GET in this case do I
write $_GET[parameter]

Answer 1

Because you are controling the parameter you do not need the name parameter= you just want the value fred.

To access this data I think you want the $_get variable.