Auto-updating links...

tom_s

Ok, just incase my topic title is'nt specific enough, I'll explain in more detail.

I have a huge amount of files running my website, and I need to update all the php code in each file to add either

?name=' . $variable . '

if there is'nt already a value contained in the URL, (Two or more values put in an URL with ? will cause errors) or:

&name=' . $variable . '

to all URLs.

I've tried editting the files manually, I've been doing it for a good few days, and I haven't even got a quarter of the way through, it's driving me insane!

What I am asking is if there is a way to automaticly add one of the above lines of code to all URL's in my site. All the files include config.php, so I could add some sort of code there.. But how could it be done....??? Can it be done?

Also the script would have to identify which line of code needs to be added to the URL, if a ? is already present, use the & line of code, if a ? is'nt present, use the ? line of code....

Please help, it is really driving me insane... :mad:

rachel2004

Maybe try this:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php

tom_s

I'm confused... How will urlencode() help?- I appreciate the help, but either I've missed something, or you have misread the question?

I need to add the ? or & extension to all the URL's in my site automaticly, without manually editting each of them.

I.E
Person goes to index.php (which includes in config.php where I want the code to be) but before the page loads I'd like ?/&name=$forumname added on....

So if they visit index.php, it becomes index.php?name=$forumname

If they visit file.php?mode=something it becomes file.php?mode=something&name=$forumname

If they visit a page without the name value in the url, it will show an error message. It is required for my site to work...

This possible?

config.php is included in all the files

bubblenut

I'm confused as to where and why you want the url changed. If you want it changed on the recieving page then what's the point because you've already got the value or do you want every link in the page to be rewritten to add an extra bit of information to it for when the user clicks through to another page?

Originally posted by tom_s
I've tried editting the files manually, I've been doing it for a good few days, and I haven't even got a quarter of the way through, it's driving me insane!

Makes me think the latter. At the moment I'm thinking write a script to rewrite all the files changing all urls in them (quite a heavy task) but without knowing more about the situation I can't really tell. What is the purpose of this opperation? What does this extra variable you're adding do? Show which page was the referrer? Could it be stored in a session rather than in the url?

Cheers
Bubbl

tom_s

I'm writing a mod for phpBB, that allows me to run multiple forums from one db, and one set of phpBB files.

It works, but in order for it to work, the 'name' variable must be passed to config.php. So I assume it must be in the URL...

I.E
http://www.phorums.co.uk/forums/core/index.php?name=myforum

Would show the forum called 'myforum', but

'' ''/index.php?name=thisforum

Would show something entirely different.
However, all of the links point to 'filename'.php?somevar=blah&someothervar=blah

Thus causing an error, since a forum name has'nt been specified.

So far in this mod, everythings gone like clockwork. I planned it out how I was going to do it, and I assumed this would be the easy part, until I realised how many links there are too edit....

And yes, incase that wasn't clear, it was the latter...

tom_s

Somebody please help???- Don't know how else I can do it?

bubblenut

You might have better luck at phpBB Community, I for one have never installed phpBB so I have no idea how it works or how best to tackle your problem.