simple ? about $PHP_SELF

[Anon]

Hi all, Ive made a 'whos online' script for my website using 10 minute session.

It works great, but I have pages like:

misc.php?view=top10
misc.php?view=disclaimer

etc..

Im using $PHP_SELF to pass the current page to a function to spit out a description:

if ($page == "/misc.php") {
		$page_desc = "Confused user...";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=disclaimer") {
		$page_desc = "Viewing site disclaimer";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=policy") {
		$page_desc = "Viewing site policy";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=helpus") {
		$page_desc = "Viewing help us out section";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=top10") {
		$page_desc = "Viewing top 10 sites";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=contact") {
		$page_desc = "Viewing contact section";
	}
	if ($page == "/misc.php?view=pow") {
		$page_desc = "Picture of the Week";
	}

But not matter which your on it returns Confused user...

Does $PHP_SELF not return whats after .php ??

If not how do I get the ?blah=value stuff to pass through?

Thanks

[mharju]

You've got it all wrong... Sorry.

PHP stores the GET-variables as a variable of their own. So all you have to do is to check the $view -variable!

If you have register_globals off in your php.ini the variable can be found at $HTTP_GET_VARS["variable_name"], so at this paticular point it would be $HTTP_GET_VARS["view"].

To get the script to do what you want, just do:

if($view=="disclaimer")
$page_desc="Viewing site disclaimer";
else if($view="policy")
$page_desc="Viewing site policy";

and so on.

🙂Mikko

[farzal]

hi,
Can you briefly explain how you are using 10 minute sessions? Are you saving the session creation time in the session file itself and then comparing it with current time? Please let me know, it will help a lot,
Thanks,
Farzal