2 include tags help

legio

Ok, i want to use 2 include tags. one for the content, and one for the naviation. Here are the tags which I have placed on main.php:

<?php include ("$nav"); ?>
<?php include ("$info"); ?>

Let's say I want to use contact.html as the "$info" and main.html as the "$nav"

how would I set that link up? would I do something like:
http://mysite.com/main.php?info=contat.html&?nav=main.html

i'm basically confused on how to add the extra inluded tag to the address is all.

batman

You were close. This is what you want to do.

<? 

//NAVIGATION

$nav = $_GET['nav'];
if(isset("$nav"))
{ 
include ("$nav.html");
}
else
{
include ("page.html"); //this will be the page that is displayed if nav is not set.
}
?>

<?

//CONTENT

$info = $_GET['info'];
if(isset($info))
{
 include ("$info.html");
}
else
{
include ("page.html"); //this will be the page that is displayed if info is not set.
}
?>

You would call this page like so:

http://mysite.com/main.php?info=contat&nav=main

Hope that helps,

legio

wow, thanks a lot!

LordShryku

Hate to butt in here, but this will throw errors of E_NOTICE becuase you are setting the $GET variables without first checking for existance. The proper way is to check to make sure they are set first. For the sake of checking, you may also want to check that the file exists too...

if(isset($_GET['nav']) && is_file($_GET['nav'].".html")) { 
   include ($_GET['nav'].".html");
}

batman

True, forgot 'bout that.


$nav = $_GET['nav'];

if(isset($nav) && file_exists($nav".html")) {  

   include ("$nav.html"); 
}