that cool url ? thing

[Lchris006]

hi there, im pretty new at php and i am making my first ever script which is a simple portal, i was just wondering, instead of having index.php then register.php etc, i could have index.php?register and some how use the include function to show the data on the index.php page, does anyone know how to do this, help would be rewarded!!

chris

chris at chris-s dot co dot uk

[Phoenix_Down]

This is how I do it:

function index() {

// blah

}

function register() {

// blah

}

switch ($action) {

default:
index();
break;

case "register":
register();
break;

}

It would then be script.php?action=register.

Hope this helps.

[Lchris006]

so that goes in index.php? where does all my register information go?

[Phoenix_Down]

Make a function register2--something like:

function register2($formelement1, $formelement2) {

// Register code here

}

And near the bottom of the script have:

switch ($action) {

default:
index();
break;

case "register":
register();
break;

case "register2":
register2($formelement1, $formelement2);
break;

}

Change $formelement1 and $formelement2 to the form names used in your HTML, and add more if you need.

[Phoenix_Down]

Oh yeah, your <FORM> tag should look something like this:

<form name="theform" action="index.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="register2">

[cgraz]

create a folder /incl

inside place index.incl and register.incl

If your form is on index.php, and you want it to be submitted and processed with register.incl (which contains php code to process it), but you want index.php but be loaded the entire time, and depending on the variable in the url you load a diff include:

<form method="post" action="?p=register">

form here

</form>

<?

if(!$_GET['p']) {
   include("incl/index.incl");
} else {
   include("/incl" . $_GET['p'] . ".incl");
}

?>

That should get you going.

Cgraz