SSI info passed on through url

chadwickhugh

Okay, I'm very new to this. I'm not even real sure how to describe what I want to do, but I'm sure it's possible.

The majority of my site's pages have the same layout. They have a header, right column, and footer all placed on the page with includes. The center of the page is a table which I place the content in (either actually in it or via another include).

SO here's the problem. I want to create one single page (a template if you will) that will have the specific content load into that table i mentioned, instead of multiple pages. Is there a way I can pass on some sort of variable via the url to this page that will load a specific page into the middle area of this page.

eg. http://www.whatever.com/view.php?=specificpage

where specificpage is the content to load in the middle of the page and view.php is the standardized template page to display the content.

Okay, I hope that makes some sense, because I don't know all the terms yet.

Thanks in advance-

press711

eg. http://www.whatever.com/view.php?=specificpage
Changed to http://www.whatever.com/view.php?page_name=specificpage
e.g.
http://www.whatever.com/view.php?page_name=about_us
http://www.whatever.com/view.php?page_name=home
http://www.whatever.com/view.php?page_name=services
http://www.whatever.com/view.php?page_name=contact us

Assumption : No database is being used
TRY SOMETHING LIKE THIS
Wherever you want the content to be placed at this code :

<?PHP
switch($_POST["page_name"]) {
case "about_us" :
include "about_us_text.php";
break;
case "home" :
include "home_text.php";
break;

case "contact_us" :
include "contact_us_text.php";
break;
case "services" :
include "services_text.php";
break;
default :
include "home_text.php";
break;
}

Then you can build up the different pages about_us_text.php, home_text.php .. etc with just the text.

For more on :
switch statements : http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

include statements : http://www.php.net/function.include

$_POST variables : http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpmanual/page/reserved.variables.html

Let me know if you need any more help