really simple question

aevans4e

hey all i really need help with one thing its kinda simple but i thought i would ask cuz ive looked for it before and its hard to find

i have my site in php and on the main index.php page instead of having links to like something.php and stuff i want it to be [url]http://....net/index.php?p=links[/url]
and when u click it the links page links.php will come up in another window on the page

maybe using cases? does php use cases? or how would u recommend i go about doing that?

thx
ae

cgraz

So basically you have only one file--index.php, and the other pages of your site are includes with only content? so you have links like

index.php?p=about
index.php?p=hours
index.php?p=contact

and when they click one of those, you want the value of variable p to be included in your page? You could use something like this:

Your variable is up in the URL, so that is a GET method. If there is no p variable in the url, then you included the default page, default.php

<?

if(!$p) {
   include("includes/default.php");
} else {
   include("includes/" . $_GET['p'] . ".php");
}

?>

That will include default.php if there is no p variable, and will include the page found in the p variable along with the .php extension.

Cgraz

EviL_CodE

Use the switch() function and include pages dependant on the argument passed to switch().

i.e.

switch ($_GET['p']) {
   case "about":
       include('about.php');
       break;
   case "hours":
       include('hours.php');
       break;
   case "contact":
       include('contact.php');
       break;
   default:
       include('main.php');
}

aevans4e

thx guys i think that will work for me.. but the $_GET u said to do dont i have to define that var? or is that a php default var?

i wil try it in just a bit gonna go get food
thx
ae

aevans4e

it works!!
but what does that get statement do and how does it know to take the part after p=TAKE to take that part and not the php extension?

cgraz

index.php?p=pagename

That means you are on index.php and you have access to a variable $p with a value of pagename.

In order to access that variable, you could simply access it by

but assuming register globals is off (which it is by default. Register globals is just a setting in your php configuration), you have two options, $POST['p'] or $GET['p]

both are the two methods, GET and POST. Since variable p is up in your url, the method is GET. And yes, $GET and $POST are PHP global variables.

Cgraz

aevans4e

sweet thx man : )
php is soo much fun
im re learning it and my html
so much fun!

ty again
ae