index.php?area=myarea ##PLEASE HELP##

Anon

How would I go about this??

Ok im wanting to do a few things I resulting in running my website in one file sorta like GTA3.com does ok

So lets see here I would like to make the script use <?php include ("main.txt"); ?> in a certain area of my file if I or a user go to index.php but if I go to index.php?area=myarea for it to show <?php include ("myarea.txt"); ?>

Hopefully you under stand

Anon

<?
if ($area == "page1") {
include("file1.php");
} elseif ($area == "page2") {
include("file2.php");
} else {
include("notfound.php");
}
?>

madmada

Woo! An easy one! Try this first:

<?php
include ("$area.txt");
?>

If that doesn't work, then your server probably has register_globals=off. If so, try this:

<?php
inlclude ("$HTTP_GET_VARS[area].txt");
?>

Basically, if register_globals is off, then the vars in the URL don't get created as variables in the PHP page automatically so you have to pull them out of the array generated by the web server yourself.

Hopefullly that helps.

Adam

madmada

I missed the stipulation that if no area was set, that it should default to main.txt. Here's how you could do that:

<?
// if the $area var exists, use it
$inc_file = ($area) ? $area . ".txt" : "main.txt";
include ($inc_file);
?>

and if no register_globals

<?
$inc_file = ($HTTP_GET_VARS[area]) ? $HTTP_GET_VARS[area] . ".txt" : "main.txt";
include ($inc_file);
?>

Anon

Biggulps method worked thanks alot man