php? links

abda53

not sure on how to do this.. ive tried researching it, and having found anything..

how do i (if its possible) to make a link like... index.php?something or index.php?page=1 something to that effect. im not sure if that or something similar can be done. im remaking my page right now and i have a lot of links in my page.. something like this would make things a lot easier.. any help would be great. thanks

bizzaire

use html 2 make links to pages... if u want 2 echo the html in a link remeber to replace " with \" or leave the " out like the examples below

eg:

echo "<a href=yourpage.php?id=1>you link text</a>";

xwin

Actually, a better way. You can have index.php (or whatever.php) control everything, so they never have to go to links.php, say, just index.php?act=links or something. Here's a basic example.

<?php
if(isset($_GET["act"]))
{
	$act = $_GET["act"];
	if($act=="downloads")
	{
		include("downloads.php");
	}
	else if($act=="links")
	{
		include("links.php");
	}
	else if($act=="contact")
	{
		include("contact.php");
	}
}
else
{
	include("includes/defaultpage.php");
}
?>

Now if you do index.php?act=downloads, downloads.php will appear on the page, but it'll still look like your in index.php, looks a lot better this way.

evo4ever

Another way:

<?php if {include "folder/" . $_GET['page'] . ".php";}?>

Result: www.domain.com/index.php?page=1 Just as long as 1.php is in the folder you specified, and the above script is in index.php

WARNING: Make sure index.php isnt full of HTML! Beucase not only will it view the file you've just queried for, it will also view the HTML thats in index.php! So it will look like theres 2 pages viewed in one browser window!
:p

abda53

thanks!!

abda53

i ended up doing this..

<?php
////////////////////
///links start here/
////////////////////
if(isset($GET["now"]))
{
$act = $GET["now"];
if($now=="home")
{
include("blank.php");
}
else if($now=="about")
{
include("site/about.php");
}
else if($now=="awardsgot")
{
include("site/awardsgot.php");
}
else if($now=="about3")
{
include("site/about3.php");
}
}
else
{
include("blank.php");
}
////////////////////
////links end here//
////////////////////
?>

i tried it some other ways, but i didnt want to have all the links in the index file.. so im using an include to pull it in.

thanks for the help!

ShawnD

Now if you do index.php?act=downloads, downloads.php will appear on the page, but it'll still look like your in index.php, looks a lot better this way.

not really, people can't directly link and you can't directly link yourself. perhaps a guy asked something in a forum and you said "oh yeah thats on my page" you could either give a link of index.php?page=wkljwe or you could say "it's at index.php then click on this then click that"

abda53

correct.. if you just go straight to the file.php without the .php?page=something then youll lose all the other includes and formatting of it..

is there a way to put the files into a folder or password it so the user cant load it directly? i thought there was something like that, with databases.. is it possible with normal files?

Trygve_Grimnes

Just a little hint, it may be a good idea to base64endoce the date for the page, and decode it before it gets prosessed, henceforth the browser will only show the coded data in the navbar.

If you understand what I am saying, Im off to get some coffee.

abda53

nope not sure what you mean.. what are you talkin about?

dalecosp

Originally posted by abda53
correct.. if you just go straight to the file.php without the .php?page=something then youll lose all the other includes and formatting of it..

is there a way to put the files into a folder or password it so the user cant load it directly? i thought there was something like that, with databases.. is it possible with normal files?

I've used this a few times. For example, I don't want anyone to just load the header, they have to load the whole page; I put this in the header:

if (($_SERVER[PHP_SELF])=="/header.php") {
              header("Location: index.php");
              }

The other thing you can easily do is put your included files in a directory outside the Apache Document Root, e.g.:

include "../header.php";

HTH,

Trygve_Grimnes

Hehe, I knew I werent making sence, but if you use the:
include($file);
thing you may want to do this:
at top of file:
$file2 = base64decode($fil);
include($file2);

Send a base64encoded string when using links like
index.php?file=THEENCODEDSTRING

if you get my draft..

Ill just go in a corner and rust.

abda53

lol.. maybe im just not getting the point of that..

if i want to link a page like /home/something/link/page5.php im just going to make it a index?link=page5 why would i want to encode that? im not passing any variables or anything.. if anything, im just going to be hiding the actual link..

maybe im just not on the same page (or same book) with you

and then on this..

if (($_SERVER[PHP_SELF])=="/header.php") {
header("Location: index.php");
}

if i just use the index?link=something and have it included the way i do.. they wont see the name of the header.php file anywhere, so unless they guess the filename correctly, or hack my server, its not going to do any good.. (this is just my thinking.. correct me if im wrong)

Trygve_Grimnes

Hehe, sorry dude, now you are right, just for links there is no point, unless you have some sensitive for your eyes only pages, like admin.php.. that would be nice to encode, bo put people into a little more effort then just guessing suffixes to the index.php?file=

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Trygve_Grimnes
Send a base64encoded string when using links like
index.php?file=THEENCODEDSTRING

Why use base64 encoding for this, when there is already a function specifically for encoding strings in a form suitable for URLs?

Trygve_Grimnes

Weedpacket: Damn, I forgot. Just ignore my posts in this thread.

abda53

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Why use base64 encoding for this, when there is already a function specifically for encoding strings in a form suitable for URLs?

thats what i said dude.. but if theres any sensitive type pages, ill be sure to add a little more protection.. hell i dont even need that.. if i ever need an admin type page, ill just delete it and reupload it whenever i need to use it.. haha.. hows that for secure? 😉

bizzaire

abda53 a lot more simpler way of doing your code is this:

<?php

if($page)
include("$page.php");
}
else
{
// You main index page info
}

so you wont have to keep adding all the pages that you create it will do it automatically 🙂

abda53

looking at that, if im getting it right, my $page would have the be the file name correct? thats what i was trying to get away from.. and my links are all in different folders..

its working what im doing now.. i just got a page with all the links and im including it.. works for me.. does what i want 🙂