hi, im trying to get my links similar to this one:

index.php?id=main/news

i know that main is the folder and news is the file, but it just seems to refresh the homepage. Whats the problem

it's not that simple, the ?id=main/news is called "query" to a processor inside the file (index.php in this case).

this is a sample processor on top of index.php

<?php
if (isset ($_GET['id']) && file_exists ($_GET['id']))
{
header ("Location: " . $_GET['id']);
exit();
}
?>

Now if you have news.php in folder /main, you can access it from index.php:

http://yoursite.org/index.php?id=main/news.php

---
Site of the Day