Website page inclusion question...

[rheroux]

Okay, I've figured out easily enough how to get that trendy index.php?page=links type of thing working with my webpage.

However, I've seen some webpages that just have ?page=links with no index.php (or whatever their index page is named) prepended before it.

So...my question is, how do they do that? Here's the code I'm using so far.

<?php
$directory = './webpage/';

if($page)
{
       if(is_file("$directory$page.php"))
       {
               include("$directory$page.php");
       }
       else
       {
               echo ("<center>
               <font class=size3>
               Sorry this page does not exist.
               </font>
               </center>");
       }

}

else
{
       $mypage = 'main.php';
       include("$directory$mypage");
}
?>

In my links that I'm writing, I've tried just specifying the link like this: <a href=?page=links>Links</a>, but once PHP parses the file, it sticks index.php in there every time. This isn't a huge deal, I'm just curious as to how they do it. 🙂

[michalopek100]

here is index.php

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="pl">
<?
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////strony///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
if (substr($SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 0, 2)=="") {$szablon="powitanie.php";};
if (substr($SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 0, 2)=="kd") {$szablon="konferencje/konferencje.php";};
if (substr($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], 0, 2)=="pd") {$szablon="dla_pracownikow/powitanie.php";};
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////footer& header/////////////////////////////////////////
$header = "header.html";
$footer = "footer.html";
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////including/////////////////////////////////////////
include($header);
include($szablon);
include($footer);
?>

This index is generated only buy including other pages. Header is thetop ofe every page, footer is the bottom. $szablon (variable) dependingo on action (what will sb. chose from menu) is this most important middle.
So everything what you have is in index.php. Everypage is index.php and every directory is included into this page
ex: $szablon="dla_pracownikow/powitanie.php"
And when you want to post a form you write example :action="<?php $PHP_SELF;?>?kd=2">. So finaly if you open page www.xxx.com and the main file is index.php every action which you do , will look lihe that: www.xxx.com/?kd=2
Hope it helps. Sorry for my english

[benbox]

if you do

yoursite.com/?page=whatever
that will work.. because the page hasnt been defined it looks for the index.php or other default file...

its like when you look at pages and they dont always display index.html or index.php

so
yoursite.com/?page=whatever
is the same as yoursite.com/index.php?page=whatever

but
yoursite.com/viewpage.php?page=whatever
wouldnt work if u put
yoursite.com/?page=whatever
because viewpage.php isnt default...

this what you ment?