I'm making a site using divs. I have one across the top with a row of links which I want to change what's in the main window. I would prefer to keep strictly to PHP and HTML and use a full page refresh as I am comfortable with them at current, rather than using an Ajax refresh as I don't have any knowledge of Ajax.

I don't want to use iframes. I thought the best way to do this would be as follows:

<div id="top">
<a href="news.html">News</a>
</div>
<div id="main">
<?php include($page); ?>
</div>

What I need is a way of changing the $page variable upon clicking the link. If this means changing the variable and then reloading the page then so be it.

A command following the logic of:

<a href="news.html" action="<?php $page="news.html"; ?>">News</a>

would be ideal! I thought about using a form, but it seems there should be an easier way.