Beginner's question - GET parameter mode

[phpchick]

First of all I want to say that I’m total beginner in php and so, this question may sound somewhat weird. But I need to write some php code for some school task. So, I hope you could help.
I have a so-called controller file: controller.php. And two template files – gallery.tpl and bigpic.tpl. First of them shows all small pictures, the second one is for big picture (one at a time on a page). I need to change the url so that, if I look at some big picture, the url will be something like controller.php?mode=picture&id=1. (I already managed to do this). But if I look at the gallery page, the url should be controller.php?mode=gallery.
How to do this? Should I put some link to controller.php file?
I’ve all the necessary code and also a switch statement:

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$mode="something";
if (isset($_GET['mode']) && $_GET['mode']!=""){
  $mode=$_GET['mode'];
}

switch($mode){            
 case "gallery":
 require("gallery.tpl");
 break;
 
 case "picture":
 require("bigpic.tpl");
 break;
 }

But still, it’s not enough yet. How can I tell the controller.php that the mode of the main (gallery) page – homepage - shoud be „gallery“. If I add gallery.tpl as a default value to switch statement, then it won’t set this mode the way I want it.

Thanks!

[seandisanti]

check out Jreams's create your own mvc series. it takes him a little bit to really get going but it will answer this question fairly early on. http://jream.com/learning/videos/php-oo ... mvc-part-1

[jevin94]

use the link such as controller.php?mode=abc and in other link use controller.php?mode=def

then fetch the value of mode in other page via get[''];

e.g. $mode=$_GET['mode'];