Creating multiple HTML pages in 1 file?

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I've just started learning HTML and I'm I've begun to make my own website (for fun) and was wondering how I load a certain video depending on the '/'.

localhost/video1 localhost/video2

rather than having, possibly, hundreds of .html files for each video, is there a way to simply get the video/file depending on the contents as the code is the same, the video is only different.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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There are several options:

You could use Javascript to get anchor hashes for your page. The urls are then looking like localhost/#video1

How can you check for a #hash in a URL using JavaScript?
Use instead of plain HTML files, for example php. With mod_rewrite you can rewrite localhost/video1.php into localhost/video1 Removing the .php extension with mod_rewrite
A third option is to use a router library like http://smalljs.org/client-side-routing/page/ or http://projects.jga.me/routie/

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered May 31 '17 at 15:02

Bas van Dijk

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Do you know how '?v=KEY' works? used on sites, such as YouTube – Bradley May 31 '17 at 15:34
This a so called GET parameters, which you can grab server side. For example in PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.get.php – Bas van Dijk May 31 '17 at 15:45

Creating multiple HTML pages in 1 file?

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