newbie needs help

epik_x

I am a newbie to php i may learn it sometime in the future...or something, but right now I just wanna do one thing. I dont think this would really have any advantage for my site...except maybe making me look smarter and like I know what I am doing.

Basically, what I wanna do is make my links look like this:

www.mysite.com/index.php?=link
or
www.mysite.com/index.php?=link1

etc...

I dunno is this done with arrays or something. I see many sites that have it like this, and I thought it would be nice for me too.

jc94062

<a href="www.mysite.com/index.php?=link">Link name</a>
<a href="www.mysite.com/index.php?=link1">Other Link name</a>

Except of course you want links like

www.mysite.com/index.php?link=xx where xx is whatever you want link to be equal to.

Then when they click that link you can access the value of link (ie the xx) on the index.php page from $link.

Or from $_GET['link'] if you have globals turned off, want extra security, or whatever.

epik_x

I know next to nothing about php, can you plesae explain that link=xx idea a little more newbie friendly. 😉

sarahk

your script will look like this

<?php
if ($link == '1')
  include('mypage.html');
else if ($link == '2')
  include('myboyfriendspage.html');
else if ($link == '3')
  include('mymumspage.html);
?>

and just keep adding pages.

simple as that!

epik_x

Wow i really am a newbie, thanks alot.

siwis

Instead of using an endless "if else", you might find it easier to use the switch() function:

switch ($link) {
case "1":
include "page1.html";
break;
case "2":
include "page2.html";
break;
case "3":
include "page3.html";
break;
case "4":
include "page4.html";
break;
default:
include "index.html";
}

And once you are a little more confident, you could even store the filenames in a database with a unique ID, and query the database when the page is called that way:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT linkfile FROM links WHERE ID = $link), $db);
list($linkfile) = mysql_fetch_row($query);
include "$linkfile";

epik_x

Hi I got a little lazy and totally forgot about this, but I think I may give it another go, im wondering how would i open the link instead of including it on the same page?

DaMightyWhighty

Okay, the site I'm currently working on requires that I write PHP code. But the other people only know how to use GoLive (WYSIWYG editor). I'm in the middle of using the ?site=information form of linking. All the links information is in a database. All of that linking works find, the problem is since I'm including pages in subdirectories, the page's pictures and links are all off due to the nature of the include() command. obviously the problem is if the linking is done through index on the root directory, the included information page will be looking for its images in the root, instead of in its folder. Also if the information page has sub pages or links. The links will change the page, and won't include the navigation menu which included the page the user is currently on. Iduno if there is anyway on a PHP end that I can do, but any ideas would be nice.

simwiz

hi ppl,
Right ive use case to link my pages which works perfectly BUT I have a page which when the link is clicked it opens a new window.
Ive used this inside the screenshot page ;

<?php
switch ($page)
{
case "screenshot1" : include "screenshot1.txt";

       break;
                 }
    ?>

IT works good when i click the screenshot1 link but ive used this html code to make it open in a new window ;

<a href="#" onClick="MyWindow=window.open('screenshots.php page=screenshot1','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=750,height=804'); return false;">ScreenShot 1</a>

The problem is when I click the link the whole of the screenshot page is included in the page e.g

I click screenshot 1 link from the screenshot page, it opens a new window with picture inside, But the screenshot page shows again below the picture ????

Just one more thing what coding would i put so if the page == nothing then show an error message ?? Ive tried to do it but when you go on the site /index.php it shows the error page because page = 0 until you click a link !!

Please can somebody help ! thankyou

jc94062

I'm amazed its not erroring as is atm - every switch statement should have a default option - which occurs if all case statements fail...

switch ($var)
{
case 1 : break;
case 2: include "file.inc"; break;
default: echo "Error";

Note that you don't need a break for default.

simwiz

thanks for the help m8 !!