How To: index.php?xxxxx ?

joelsanda

How can I use a single index.php page to drive all content with include files? I\'m fairly certain it uses the switch command, so the url would be, for example:

http://www.home.net/index.php?home - or
index.php?photos, index.php?resume.

Can anyone post some code for this or (preferably) know of a good article on this topic?

Thanks !!!

Joel

Anon

easy, use a switch statment like this one.

switch ($action)
{
case "home":
include "./home.php";
break;
case "photos";
include "./photos.php";
break;
default:
echo "Menu<br>";
echo "<a href="$PHP_SELF?action=home>Home</a><br>":
echo "<a href="$PHP_SELF?action=photos>Photos</a><br>":
}

of you could use the if statment to do this

Anon

simple one:

if ($page==home) {include("home.php");}
elseif ($page==photos) {include("photos.php");}
else {{include("home.php");}}

use index.php?page=home

there are different ways but im a n00b and my first idea was this one 🙂

Anon

yeah thats the easy one but i believe it would be better put like this

if ($page=="") {include("home.php");}
if ($page=="home") {include("home.php");}
if ($page=="photos") {include("photos.php");}

aspbyte

Assume i have directory structure like this
Folder
+ Modules
- FILES

index.php

To enable what you want to achieve we can use 2 tricks
1. Via FIle open and
2. Use simple Include

//.Code for index.php

// use a simple switch st.

switch($func)
{
case $func = "";
$default = "home.php";
break;
case $func = "portfolio";
$default = "portfolio.php";
break;
case $func = "downloads";
$default = "downloads.php";
break;
case $func = "resume";
$default = "resume.php";
break;
}

$path = "modules/$default";
// print $path;
$file = fopen ($path , 'r') or die("Couldnt open file");
$op = fread ($file , '1024') or die("Couldnt Read file");

print $op
Same thing could be achieved simply by use include instead of fopen as in
include modules/filename.

The basic idea is to enable the statement to find the variable

Hope this helps

Pradeep Dsouza
Aspbyte Creations.com

Anon

Can somebody explain how to retrieve data from a MySQL database in the same manner as the previous question asked (Eg a content.php page, that could go to diff. sections : content.php?type=FFX or content.php?type=FF8, where FFX and FF8 are sections of the table that have content in them.)

The Database would have the information in HTML that is supposed to be retrieved, an extra misc. field, and an ID field.

Help is appriciated.

Chris

joelsanda

Rayn;

Thanks. Here's what I have for the initial switch code:

<?
switch($page)
{
case "resume":
include('includes/resume.inc');
break;

default:
include ('includes/home.inc');
break;
}
?>

This is in the table cell I want the content to load in. All other table cells are using:

<? include("includes/xxxx.inc"); ?>

to include the file.

My navigation include is coded like:

<a href="index.php?page=resume" class="nav" title="Joel's Resume">resume</a>

Unfortunately, this is not loading the correct area. I think it's because I'm including the <switch> command before the navigation include?

No error message, just a page refresh with the new url (http://localhost/homepage/index.php?page=resume), but the same content as my default case area (home.inc).

Joel

joelsanda

I'm not even going to admit to the problem I had ... </sheepish grin>.

Thanks for the code!

aspbyte

Thats not tough either use the same principle a variable can be parsed through a url and recieved from the code eg

In the recieving page

$sql = \"select * from tname where criteria = \'$func\'\";

mysql_query($sql, $connect);

Bye

Pradeep