URL Switch

[raouleduke]

I was told there is a way to look for the URL when someone comes to my site and display different results for different url's.
Is this possible or were they on crack.
thanks for any responses.

[PHP-Editors_com]

This is not a clear description of what you need. Are you trying to identify a user and direct them to a certain page or site based on their identity ?

[ednark]

well this is the job of the webserver... to hand out differnet pages depending on the url...

however there is a one page technique in php

you would make a page called say index.php

index.php would expect $_GET['page'] to be set

index.php?page=/get/this/page

and index.php would look something like this

<?php
    $page_to_get = $_GET['page'];

switch( $page_to_get ) {
    case '/get/this/page':
        include 'whatever_script.php';
        break;
    default:
        echo "Don't know what you want.";
}
?>

this in effect mimics what the webserver already does... but can be useful in some situations where you want very very fine tune control of things, beyond and above what you know how to do with your webserver.

[raouleduke]

So this will work if I have an alias for my main domain and want to display another page if they type in the alias.

[ednark]

ummm... no

to see what address they typed in to get to your site do this

print "<pre>";
print_r($_SERVER);
print "</pre>";

you can, depending on what the variables say choose which code to include...

read up on [man]print_r[/man] and [man]include[/man]