a) cat & subcat, b) featured xxxx?

robk

Hi there,

Just looking for some help on a couple of unrelated topics..

First off, I'm looking for some (free) scripts that will run a featured artist/band profile I can set to run randomly from mySQL... anyone seen anything like this?

Secondly, I currently run something like this to keep my site structure clean:

<a href="index.php?id=home">home link</a>
<a href="index.php?id=news">news link</a>
<a href="index.php?id=about">about link</a>

<?php

if (($id) == "home") {
include("null.txt");
} elseif (($id) == "news") {
include("news.txt");
} elseif (($id) == "about") {
include("about.txt");
} else {
print ("404 ERROR<br>This page does not exist on this server.");
}

How can I extend this to include subcategories? For example, under news (..?cat=news), I could get (..?cat=news&sub=archive ... or submit or whatever I'd need)

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Rob

wilsonodk

How can I extend this to include subcategories? For example, under news (..?cat=news), I could get (..?cat=news&sub=archive ... or submit or whatever I'd need)

<a href="index.php?id=home">home link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=news">news link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=news&sub=archive">old news link</a>
<a href="index.php?id=about">about link</a> 

<?php 

if ($id == "home") { 
  if ($sub == 'archive') {
    include ('oldnews.txt');
  } else {
    include("null.txt");
  }
} elseif ($id == "news") { 
include("news.txt"); 
} elseif ($id == "about") { 
include("about.txt"); 
} else { 
print ("404 ERROR<br>This page does not exist on this server."); 
} 

?>

HTH

wilsonodk

You could also try something like this...

<a href="index.php?id=home">home link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=news">news link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=archive">old news link</a>
<a href="index.php?id=about">about link</a>

<?php
// this will only work if my text files are named 
// to match the value of the $id variable
include("$id.txt");
?>

or if you really wanted to use the $sub variable

<a href="index.php?id=home">home link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=news">news link</a> 
<a href="index.php?id=news&sub=archive">old news link</a>
<a href="index.php?id=about">about link</a>

<?php
// this will only work if my text files are named
// to match the value of the $id variable
// and my $sub variables are named like news_archive.txt
if (isset($sub)) {
  include("$id_$sub.txt");
} else {
  include("$id.txt");
}
?>

robk

Monty Burns style Exccceelllent....

Thanks bunches 🙂

Rob