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Stu

Hi all.

After looking at this thread, I wanted to play with the script myself but couldn't get it to work.

I couldn't quite understand the instructions from ph8edsicness. I wasn't sure whether content.php should be a seperate file to the file containing the hyperlink.

This is how I it set up:

content.php:

<?

_GET($id);

switch($id) {

_____case_"1":
          include("hello.html");_
          break;

_____case_"2":
          include("blank.html");
         _break;

_____default:
         _break;

}
?>

And this is links.php:

<?php
include("content.php");
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Links</title>
</head>

<body>

<a href="content.php?id=1>Happy House</a>

</body>
</html>

Obviously it doesn't work because I have it set up here: http://www.2312.co.uk/links.php

I'd be grateful for any help you could offer me.

Thanks
Stu

matt_4013

You'll want to have your include for the content inside the body of your html, however, this isn't the only problem!

Take a look at this:

content.php

$id = $_GET['id'];

switch($id) {

case 1:

	include 'hello.html';
	break;

case 2:

	include 'blank.html';
	break;

default:

	include 'default.html';
	break;
}

A case structure (defined by the switch() function) is basically an if statement. What it's saying is that,

if the id is equal to 1, then include hello.html, then break out of the case, so it doesn't keep checking. if it's NOT equal to 1, then check if it's equal to 2, and so on.

For your links page, you'll want this:


<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Links</title>
</head>

<body>

<a href="content.php?id=1>Happy House</a>

<?php
include("content.php");
?>

</body>
</html>

You put it there so that the content is placed inside the body of your document, otherwise it would be placed up the top. This isn't a great thing for valid html 🙂

Hope that helps,
Matt

Stu

Hi matt_4013.

Sorry it's take so long to reply to your post, I've been at school all day 🙁

Anyway, I've used your script and uploaded it but cannot get it to work. It prints out a page of links until I close the browser window.

Have a look here: http://www.2312.co.uk/phpprojects/links/content.php

I have just copied and pasted your script so there's no need to post what I have in the files.

Hopefully you can offer some advice.

Cheers
Stu

paul088

I beg there is something wrong within your switch. You may have "include 'content.php'" there. Post your content.php here. Supposedly you need to click a link like this:
<a href="content.php?id=1>Happy House</a> to get to content.php page (to have a value to id). If your link is on content.php, make sure no case inlcuding default has include 'content.php'.

Stu

As requested, here is the content of the two files involved: content.php and links.php.

content.php:

<html>

<head>

<title>Testing Links</title>

</head>

<body>

<a href="content.php?id=1>Happy House</a>

<?php

include("links.php");

?>

</body>

</html>

links.php:

$id_=_$_GET['id'];

switch($id)_{


____case_1:

____ ___include_'home.html';

________break;

____case_2:

_______include_'blank.html';

________break;
_______

____default:

________include_'default.html';

________break;

}

You can see an example of it here: http://www.2312.co.uk/phpprojects/links/content.php

Thanks for any help
Stu

paul088

Get rid of <? include 'links.php'; ?> in content.php, change the URL (links.php instead of content.php) and add an end quote for it (see below). Remove underscores in links.php. Give it another try.

<a href="links.php?id=1">Happy House</a>

Stu

Hi.

Once again, apologies for not replying in a while, I've had a busy weekend.

Anyway, I still cannot get the script to work properly after following paul088's advice.

Here is the code I am using.

content.php:

<html>

<head>

<title>Testing Links</title>

</head>

<body>

<a href="links.php?id=1">Home</a><br>

<a href="links.php?id=2">Happy House</a>

</body>

</html>

links.php:

$id_=_$_GET['id'];

switch ($id)_{
    case_1:
       include_'home.html';

_______break;

____case_2:

_______include_'http://happyhouse02.proboards9.com';

________break;

default:

_______ include_'default.html';

________break;

}

Note: The underscores are simply blank spaces for indentation in Notepad 🙂

Thanks for any help you can offer 🙂

Norman_Graham

Can you give a URL as the target of an include() statement? I suspect not. You need the name of a locally available file.

Best o luck

Norman

Stu

Still not working 🙁

This is what I have now.

content.php:

<html>

<head>

<title>Testing Links</title>

</head>

<body>

<a href="links.php?id=1">Test</a><br>

<a href="links.php?id=2">Happy House</a>

</body>

</html>

links.php:

$id_=_$_GET['id'];

switch ($id)_{
    case_1:
       include_'test.html';

_______break;

____case_2:

_______include_'hh.html';

________break;

default:

_______ include_'default.html';

________break;

}

Here is the code in action: http://www.2312.co.uk/phpprojects/links/content.php

Once again, thanks in advance for any help 🙂

Stu

I've now managed to get this code fixed with full URLs included, thanks to my own personal PHP bod 😃

Here is the code.

content.php

<html>

<head>

<title>Testing Links</title>

</head>

<body>

<a href="links.php?id=1">Test</a><br>

<a href="links.php?id=2">Happy House</a>

<a href="links.php?id=3">Happy House Forum</a>

</body>

</html>

links.php

<?
switch ($id) {

case "1":
	include "test.html";
	break;

case "2":
	include "hh.html";
	break;

case "3":
	include "http://happyhouse02.proboards9.com";
	break;
}
?>

Hopefully this will help anyone else in the same position.

Thanks to all that helped.

Stu