Download Querying! how?

[evo4ever]

Hey everyone. I finally got my php navigation sorted! What I want to know now is how to query for a file... instead of a URL! the current link is:

/downloads/file.zip

I want this:

/view.php?PAGEID=downloads&FILEID=file

or...

/downloads/view.php?PAGEID=downloads&FILEID=file

the downloads page is here: www.evostation.com/view.php?PAGEID=downloads

How do I do it? Thx.

[sweetkisses_net]

Here's sample:

view.php

if($_GET['pageid'] == "downloads"){

 echo "<a href=download.php?id=1>filename</a>";

}

download.php

if($_GET['id'] == "1"){

header("Location: file.zip");

}

this is simple sample (lol) you can do it with mysql etc. 🙂

[evo4ever]

Thanks m8! All I needed was the downloads.php part. What I wanna know now is how to query a url in a different method to what im currently using!

I would like to use something like this:

if ($_GET['PAGEID'] == "articles"){

  header("location: /nav_pages/articles.php");

}

It does work but it shows the real URL when the browser takes you to the page! which I dont want it to do! I want it viewing like this: view.php?PAGEID=articles in the address bar!

The reason I want to do it this way is becuase I wanna move the page somewhere else... via a different root folder... for security reasons! So people cant just delete the "view.php?PAGEID=" to view the articles page... get what I mean? Pls help! Thx.

[sweetkisses_net]

Take a look at my www.xtina.pl page, you can do this with IFRAME, if you want know more about this system, tell me. 🙂

[evo4ever]

Go ahead! im all ears!!! oh and pls tell me it doesnt use frames!!!

[sweetkisses_net]

It uses IFRAME lol here's code from xtina.pl

layout...

<IFRAME SRC=<? echo $_GET['page'] . ".php"; ?> WIDTH=489 HEIGHT=420 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=AUTO MARGINWIDTH=5 MARGINHEIGHT=5 ;></IFRAME>

layout...

and you can use

layout...

<IFRAME SRC=<? echo "nav_pages/" . $_GET['page'] . ".php"; ?> WIDTH=489 HEIGHT=420 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=AUTO MARGINWIDTH=5 MARGINHEIGHT=5 ;></IFRAME>

layout...

so now index.php?page=articles show page nav_pages/articles.php 🙂

or better (maybe for you)

layout...

<? include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['page'] . ".php"; ?>

layout...

and it include nav_pages/variable_page.php script 🙂

[evo4ever]

One lil problem! I wanna use this for multiple pages! I've tried doing this for the articles page:

<? include "nav_pages/articles" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php"; ?>
[/php

and this for the downloads page:

[code=php]
<? include "nav_pages/downloads" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php"; ?>

But it doesnt work! It's Coming back with a blank screen! The only way to get it to work is to create a folder for each page! but i dont wanna do that!

"note that /nav_pages/ is a folder and articles is the page"

Pls help! Thx.

[sweetkisses_net]

... and articles.php is a page with articles, yes?

So... do this:

<? include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php"; ?>

[evo4ever]

lol. i forgot to upload the pages into the nav_pages/ folder! silly me! slaps head Yeah It works fine now! 😃 Thx again m8!

[sweetkisses_net]

lol, no problem. 😃

[evo4ever]

Hey im back again! lol. Now... I need to know how to create the following url:

view.php?PAGEID=articles&ARTID=art01a-0

this is how it look now:

view.php?PAGEID=art01a-0

the code in the view.php is:

include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";

I've tried doing this to get it working:

include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . $_GET['ARTID'] ".php";

But it never worked! Just got a parse error back! Pls help. Thx.

[sweetkisses_net]

You've got parse error because you forgot . after $_GET['ARTID'] --> . <-- ".php";

but try this

if($_GET['PAGEID'] == "articles" && isset($_GET['ARTID'])){

include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['ARTID'] . ".php";

} else {

include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";

}

😕

[evo4ever]

Nope it didnt work 🙁 It just takes you back to the articles page! do you know why? Thx.

[evo4ever]

Sorry it does work but it includes a 2nd page in the code!😕 See for yourself: www.evostation.com/view.php?PAGEID=articles&ARTID=art01a-0 Is this fixable?

[sweetkisses_net]

Did you change this:

<? include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php"; ?>

with my code? You must change it.

[evo4ever]

Ok ive sorted it now! This was all the code in the view.php page:

1. include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";
   [/php
   
   2. [code=php] 
       if($_GET['PAGEID'] == "articles" && isset($_GET['ARTID'])){
   
       include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['ARTID'] . ".php";
   
       } else {
   
       include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";
   
   }
   

   I just deleted number 1 and it worked!!! Thx once again! lol

[sweetkisses_net]

Originally posted by evo4ever
I just deleted number 1 and it worked!!!

As I said in my last post. 😃 And no problem 🙂

[evo4ever]

One last question sweetkisses... can I do this using multiple query strings in the view.php file?

EG:

 
    if($_GET['PAGEID'] == "articles" && isset($_GET['ARTID'])){

include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['ARTID'] . ".php";

} else {

include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";

}

and an other one:

 
    if($_GET['PAGEID'] == "staff" && isset($_GET['STAFFID'])){

include "staff/" . $_GET['STAFFID'] . ".php";

} else {

include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";

}

Without getting the 2 pages included twice? Thx.

[edit]becuase I want another url looking like this: view.php?PAGEID=staff&STAFFID=evo[/edit]

[sweetkisses_net]

Call me nookie 😃

You can do this:

if($_GET['PAGEID'] == "articles" && isset($_GET['ARTID'])){

include "es_secure-article-urls/" . $_GET['ARTID'] . ".php";

} elseif($_GET['PAGEID'] == "staff" && isset($_GET['STAFFID'])){

include "staff/" . $_GET['STAFFID'] . ".php";

} else {

include "nav_pages/" . $_GET['PAGEID'] . ".php";

}

🙂

[evo4ever]

Thx man. Say if i wanted to do it for 3 urls what would it be?

theres if and elseif... what others are there for a 3rd... 4th... 5th etc???