[Resolved] Permanete Varuables?

chriswheat

Hello,

I don't know if its possible and if so what it is called or how to do it.....but is is possible to assign a variable for the entire visit to the website instead of just page by page basis? example

if ($site == "demo"){
$sitedisplay = "yes";
$cliqbook = "no";
$employee = "Chris Wheat";
$sitelogo = "demo/logo.gif";
$sitename = "Demo Company";
$siteurl = "http://www.passageinternational.com/demo";
$site_qg_feedisplay = "no";
$site_qg_fee = "0.00";
$site_contact = "<a href=\"http://www.passageinternational.com/contactus.php?site=$site&employee=$employee\">$employee</a>";
$tc_contact = " This is customized to fit your company. Your companys contact for online booking help is Chris Wheat 503.288.4400";
$site_message_welcome = "In this area you can put any information you want your company's travelers to see. You can include HTML code. You can put custom text on any page in this website you want. Coming soon: A calendar system that is specific to your company (Easily add or remove items in the calendar)!";

// asign site to main if site not already set above
}else{
$site = "main";
$sitedisplay = "no";
}

I am trying to set up site branding take a look
www.passageinternational.com/demo

now when they click on any of the links the company logo is at the top right of our website and the sales pitch stuff is gone. also they have custom text on some of the pages. now if some of the links on the site I forget to put ?site=$site then the branding disappears I would just prefer to set the branding (varables) once and not require all my links to have ?site=$site

does my question make sense and if so is it possible ....... Whats it called? :-) :-)

Thanks
Chris

dalecosp

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😃 😃

On a more serious note....

This could be done any number of ways, if I am understanding your question correctly.

You want a certain user (whomever it may be) to see a "demo" version of a site, with different characteristics than another user (whomever that might be) who sees the "regular" version.

I'd use sessions, and put the variables in some external config file. When the user first comes to the site, check if he should be shown the "demo" site. If so, assign a variable in the session array, and include the external file. Then, on each successive page, check for the session variable and include the file.

HTH,

planetsim

a small not so obvious flaw in that though.. but easily fixable.. Make sure the user cannot prompt a name demo or if they can use an alternative way to distinguish whether its the demo or an actual user maybe an ID demo id could be -1

chriswheat

a small not so obvious flaw in that though.. but easily fixable.. Make sure the user cannot prompt a name demo or if they can use an alternative way to distinguish whether its the demo or an actual user maybe an ID demo id could be -1

I don't understand what you mean?

BSTRhino

Don't worry about that, that will just kinda overcomplicate it.

What they're trying to tell you is that session variables will last between pages, and so you can use these variables to solve your problem.