require for a php newbie

Anon

i am completey php newbie, so plz assume i know nothing about it.

i have a website with a navagation part and a content part (you can see it at mg.krimble.com, nothings on it night now. ) anyways i want to be able to change the left or right side on all of my pages at once, and have the page include a file which will be the header/right/left/and footterhers an example in psuedocode:

---index.php----
<? include header of page>
<? include left nav bar>
<? insert news.txt >
<? include right nav bar>
<? include footer nav bar>

---index.php?do=links----
<? include header of page>
<? include left nav bar>
<? insert links.txt >
<? include right nav bar>
<? include footer nav bar>

---index.php?do=blah----
<? include header of page>
<? include left nav bar>
<? insert blah.txt >
<? include right nav bar>
<? include footer nav bar>

so basically it will insert .txt where is http://www.com/index.php?do=***

if do is null then include news.txt

can anyone help me plz 🙂

also it cannot use mysql

Anon

ok more info

if ***.txt doesnt exsit, it will include 404.txt

and the header and footer files will be
header.html
footer.html
leftnav.html
rightnav.html
thx a lot

jesus_hairdo

Are you wanting to do a frames page ??
if so do something like

<?
//this part checks if a value has given to id in the url (ie. id= bit). it means, "if $id ="" (ie nothing) then make $id = 404. if $id has a value it doesn't change.

if ($id ="")
{
$id = "news";
}
?>

<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

The next part is to make the source of the main frame reflect the value of $id.
so echo the value of $id, so we use, echo $id. now when the page is access the <? echo $id ; ?> part is just replaced by the value of $id so if $id= blah, you'd get, src="blah.txt".

Does this makes sense ??

Jamie

Anon

kinda, but its not a framed page it just uses tables

thanks a lot for help

jesus_hairdo

if its just tables and everything html wise works then you just use, include("file.html"); where you want to have the permanent html bits.