asp to php

rockstarmike

hey,
so ive been coding vbscript for probably about a year now, and i decided im gonna learn php.
im forcing it on myself in a simple manner. i have a website i need to get up and the hosting only supports php, not asp.

So 😃

i was wondering if someone can help me with this
the "if" function seems to be pretty straight forward and easy, but this is a problem i had with vbscript when i first started.

is there anyway possible to do something like this (this isnt code this is just example)

if var = X

(insert many many lines of html)

if var = y

(insert a different set of html)

my variable is going to be a string from the server like
www.whatever.net/staff.asp?show=mike

help me out if you can
thanks

jerdo

That would work just fine. Or you could use else or elseif depending on how many options there might be. Using your URL as an example:
if (show == "mike")

//or if($GET[show]) or $POST[show] depending on your php.ini settings
{
do this
}

mrmufin

I'm sorry to hear you've spent so much time with VB... but moving onwards to yer question:

<?php
// check the value of 'show' in the global array
// of GET vars. With PHP 4.1.0 and up, you can use
// the array $_GET as well:
if($HTTP_GET_VARS['show'] == 'mike') {
?>
	<html>till ya puke</html>
<?php
} else {
?>
	<html>other html till ya puke</html>
<?php
}
?>

which kinda looks crappy, so you might want to do something like this instead:

if($HTTP_GET_VARS['show'] == 'mike') {
	include('thisfile.html');
} else {
	include('thatfile.html');
}

P.S. -- cool lyric. Maybe you should be a big rock star ??

rockstarmike

maybe i already am 😉
thanks for the help man
that's exactly what i needed
and quite suprisingly to me
it's exactly what i wanted to do with asp, and couldnt 😮