Redirect script... easy one

FourthChapter

Hi all, i am using the follow redirect script, why doesnt it work, i just keep getting an error???

<? include("http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/<?print "$lang";?>/<?print "$id";?>.<?print "$suf";?>");?>

</HTML>

Where the link would look like

.../redir.php?action=Redirecting&lang=en&id=index&suff=html

so it would redirect to
http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/en/index.html
without showing that address in the address bar

I allways get an error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /www/test/redir.php on line 6

can u help me fix it and neaten up the code to make it quicker and shorter??

Thanks In Advance
Matt

Bunkermaster

why do you open PHP tags in PHP code???

<? include("http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/<?print "$lang";?>/<?print "$id";?>.<?print "$suf";?>");?>

I think you mean

<? include("http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/$lang/$id.$suf");?>

am I right or is it another one of these new thingies I missed cause of outdated doc?

FourthChapter

Nah, u didnt miss it.

Its just im a supid newbie!

Thanks for helpin me! Works Perfectally

bastien

why not use header

header("location:someurl");

see

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

also it looks like you are trying to put together a link

<? include("http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/<?print "$lang";?>/<?print "$id";?>.<?print "$suf";?>");?>

should be echo

(includes require a php file to be parsed not a link)

<?
//this creates a link to the new page
echo "http://www.mypage.co.uk/test/$lang/$id.$suf";

a simpler way may be to just test for the values and the use the header with some if then statements to redirect to all possible pages....

if ($lang=='en'){
header("location:www.mypage.co.uk/en/index.html");
}elseif($lang=='fr'){
header("location:www.mypage.co.uk/fr/index.html");
}else{
header("location:www.mypage.co.uk/another page.html");
}

hth

Bunkermaster

eyes focused on code first, you were trying to redirect??
:eek:

FourthChapter

Errr redirect is all i really wanted but i want to mask the url,

but that is too easy for the person accessing the page to guess its location, is it possible to take the variables and check and change them with a text file. I can do it with the following script using one variable:

<?php
//--- default url
$url="http://mypage.com/fil-bin/error.html";

//--- read url data
$buffer=file("http://mypage.com/fil-bin/redir.txt");

//--- convert to array
$data= array();
foreach ( $buffer as $line ){
$data[]=explode(";",$line);
}

$found=false;
$i=0;
while( $i<count($data) and !$found ){
if ( $id== $data[$i][0] ){
$url=$data[$i][1];
$found=true;
}
$i++;
}
?>

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Redirecting, pleas wait!</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=<? echo "$url"; ?>">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

so if i typed ..../redir.php?id=100 it would access the file "redit.txt" and change the page to index.html

is it possible to do this using my scrip from the first post so i have multiple text files, eg..

lang.txt (gives the language folder names)
page.txt (changes the id into a page)

so the url would be

.../redir.php?lang=1234&id=98765

and it would convert them in the text file to eg:

.../english/index.html

Sorry about my wording, but its hard to explain

Thanks in advance
Matt

Bunkermaster

why use a text file while you can use a DB?
and yes based on all your parameters you could retrieve a url from the database/file and redirect... if that is your question (kinda tired right now need coffee)

FourthChapter

I dont have a database on my server, as it is remotely hosted and does not support databases, so a txt file is all i can use.

I need to be able to get the variables translated with the ones in the txt files then sent to the redirect script i asked about at the start. So it will mask the url.

Does any one know the code for doing this with the 2 text files??

Thanks In Advance

Matt

Bunkermaster

do you have a XML parser? would be the solution

FourthChapter

sorry no 🙁

Bunkermaster

I ain't sorry, you maybe should though... Your textfile solution looks like your only option BUT why not generate instead of a text file a PHP include? with constant definition or variable declaration? you wouldn't need to parse it the PHP engine would and you'd access its info straight away...

my 2 cents...

FourthChapter

thanks ill try that!