PHP: pass variables from static link

I’m sure this is probably very simple, but beyond my very limited PHP skills, so any help would be appreciated. I’m trying to do the following:

  1. I have several links on page1.php
  2. each link will load page2.php
  3. page2.php will load a specific include file, which was specified from each individual link on page1.php (i.e. include1.php, include2.php, etc.)

Hope this makes sense. Thanks in advance!