Newbie Alert -- Help with GET

[Anon]

Hi,

I run a fan site for the Detroit Red Wings and have a monthly schedule. I have it so the current month is included in my schedule.php file. I wanted to call previous months by using an address like http://www.thehtc.com/schedule.php?month=jan . Each monthly file is named as schedule-jan.php and so on. How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance!

[Anon]

well, Ideally, you wouldn't have separate files for each thing. You would have one "template" page that used the provided information (month=jan) to format the information from a database.

But, in your situation, since you already have the pages, you could simply use include statements to display the correct file, like so:

if ($month) {
$file_to_include="schedule-".$month.".php";
include ($file_to_include);
}

[Anon]

It worked! Thanks for the help!

[radley]

Craigs code isn't exactly error proof. Here is a way to check if the file exists:

<?php
if ($month && file_exists("schedule-" . strtolower($month) . ".php")) {
include "schedule-" . strtolower($month) . ".php";
} else {
include "schedule-" . strtolower(date("M")) . ".php";
}
?>

this checks if the month file exists, if not, set it to the current month.