Do you know a better way to do this ?

Anon

Hi,
to manage my web site, i'm using a simple php tips:

I have a template page called main.php and in this page there is a content area.
So all my articles are a combo of the main.php and the content pages.

To do this I use this simple where I want the content loaded:

<?php
if ($page == faq) {
$title="Faw";
}

if ($page == journal) {
$title="Journal";
}
?>

I use this where I want the content loaded, so a click on my site to main.php?page=faq will load the faq embeded in the main.php.

The problem with this is that the main page code is getting bigger and bigger each time I add an article to my web site.

My question is: do you know how I could achieve to do this, with a smarter system ?
(i'm not a programmer and know very little of php).

Thanks,
Bob

Anon

Correction !!:

The code I'm using is in fact:

<?php
if($page==faq) {
include("/var/www/mywebsite/txt/faq.php");
}

if($page==journal) {
include("/var/www/mywebsite/txt/journal.php");
}
?>

Anon

I would pass the page name value to main.php as a variable (in the link on the previous page). You don't have to hardcode all the possible values.

In the header for main.php, assign the value sent (i.e. "request") to the variable:

<? $page = "request"; ?>

Then main.php only has to have one include line:

<? include ("$page"); ?>

Then the only necessary additions are when you add a link to main.php you need to include the value. Main.php will never grow.

Anon

Ok Chris this is exactly what I want. Thanks for your answer, but when I put this, it says:

Warning: Failed opening 'request' for inclusion (include_path='')

Could you be more specific please on what I sould put in the page code EXACTLY ?

Thanks,
Bob

mrskhris

I'm not Chris, but...

if(file_exists($path_to_your_page_dir.$page."inc")){
include($path_to_your_page_dir.$page."inc");
}
else{
include("no_such_page.inc");
}

Why I'm adding ".inc" to the end? This way you would not expose your file names in the links.

Anon

Ok, thanks guys, I did a mix about all the solutions, and now its working. That will save me lots of work and will not make the main.php getting biggger and bigger !!

Php rules !!

Thanks,
Bob