link variable from list

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LOL, not sure if that described it right.

Anyway, what i want to do is have 2 php files, where one will be a list like this:

$music = "blah\blah\blah\music.html";
$movies = "blah\blah\blah\movies.html";
$news = "blah\blah\blah\news.html";

The second file is a template basically, lets call it template.php

I would be able to bascially use the template to format the html and link to it like this:

http:\www.domain.com\template?music
or
http:\www.domain.com\template?movies
and so on.

I hope i explained this right, im a newbie to coding, so any help would be appreciated. I learn better by example too. 😛

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Woops, i obviously meant to add the php extension.

http:\www.domain.com\template.php?music
or
http:\www.domain.com\template.php?movies
and so on.

Anon

It'll be nicer if the list is an array, $pages, say.

$pages['music']='blah\blah\music.html';
$pages['movies']='blah\blah\movies.html';
$pages['news']='blah\blah\news.html';
$pages['etc']='blah\blah\etc.html';

When that gets included, do the conversion:

foreach($pages as $key=>$page)
{
$pages[$key]=preg_replace('|\([^{\]*).html|i',} '\template.php?\1', $page);
} // Cursed Microsoft path specification...

Then $pages['music'] would contain
'blah\blah\template.php?music' and so forth.

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lol, woops, my mistake, didnt mean to make the ms mistake, im on a unix box, supposed to be http:// of course

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Not sure im understanding:

foreach($pages as $key=>$page)
{
$pages[$key]=preg_replace('|\([^{\]*).html|i',} '\template.php?\1', $page);
} // Cursed Microsoft path specification...

Could you re explain this with the correct forward slashes, i apologize for my mistake

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template/list.php contains:

$pages['movies']='blah/blah/movies.html';
$pages['news']='blah/blah/news.html';
$pages['etc']='blah/blah/etc.html';

template.php contains:

include 'template/list.php';

$url = "http://www.domain.com/$page";

Then $url is used in the script for reference to templating.

So when i call it in the browser, i call:

http://www.domain.com/template?movies

Anon

Okay, now that I don't have to escape escaped escape characters ...

foreach($pages as $key=>$page)
{
$pages[$key]=preg_replace('|/([^{/]*).html|i',} '/template.php?\1', $page);
}

The regexp goes:
| Start the regexp. / is traditional here, but I want to use that and I don't want to use any more escapes than I have to 🙂
/ Forward slash
( Start a matching group - we want to capture what follows for use later.
[ Begin a character class: Match any one of the following characters...
^ ...NOT! DON'T match any of the following characters!
/ A forward slash.
] End the character class - which will match any character except a /.
* Do that zero or more times (as many as possible)
) End the group.
\ Couldn't avoid the escape characters completely...
. A full stop (really! Not "any character" but a full stop!)
html Self-explanatory
| End the regexp
i URLS are case-insensitive. We should be, too.

In short, find (and capture) all the text that lies between the last '/' in the URL and the ".html".

The bit that gets captured goes in the replacement text where the \1 appears.