[Resolved] Switching between 3 different headers

[lizzyd]

hello!

i'm building a site which allows customers to search for hotels in england, scotland and wales. on the index page the customer is invited to search for hotels in an area of their choice.

what i'd like to have on the next page (which brings up a list of local hotels), is have 3 different headers - one to be used when the chosen area is in england, one for when it's in scotland and one for when it's in wales.

at the moment i'm using the following code to try and achieve this:

$Country = $_GET['Country'];
switch ($Country)
{
case "Scotland":
include ("headerscotland.php");
break;
case "Wales":
include ("headerwales.php");
break;
default:
include ("header.php");
break;
}

but unfortunately it isn't working!! I'd be very grateful if anybody is able to tell me where i'm going wrong - i'm very new to all this!!

lizzyd

[zapa]

looks right,

you tryed to load the page like this...

http://www.localhost.com/www/file.php?Country=Scotland

other ways of doing this too if you dont want to use switch.

[TheDefender]

Hey, instead of a case/switch, how's about something like this:

<?php
if(isset($_GET['Country'])){ 
    $Country = strtolower(trim($_GET['Country']));  

} else { 
    $Country = ""; 
} 
$filename = "header$Country.php";
if(file_exists($filename)){
	include ("$filename");
} else {
	include ("header.php");
}
?>

You can test it out with and without the variable assigned in the URL. Here's some sample methods to test the URL and code.

http://www.domain.com/yourpage.php
http://www.domain.com/yourpage.php?Country
http://www.domain.com/yourpage.php?Country=
http://www.domain.com/yourpage.php?Country=Scotland

Just throwing out another option for you...

[lizzyd]

Hi Defender!

Thanks for your reply - sorry I've taken a while to get back to you - i've not had internet access for a few days. I'm afraid i really am a beginner with php and don't quite understand what you said in your post. i'd be very grateful if you could explain to me where should i enter wales and scotland in the code that you posted?

lizzyd

[tekky]

I'll help you out on the explanation

<?php
if(isset($_GET['Country'])){  //check if a country name was supplied in the URL
    $Country = strtolower(trim($_GET['Country']));  //country name found so lets set the country variable, but lets make it all lowercase and remove any blank spaces before and after the country name
} else { //no country name found
    $Country = ""; //so we set the variable as blank
} 
$filename = "header$Country.php"; //build the filename 'headerCOUNTRYNAME.php' where COUNTRYNAME is the name of the country they selected England/whales/etc
if(file_exists($filename)){ //check if the file $filename exists
	include ("$filename"); //it does so lets include it
} else { //it doesn't so....
	include ("header.php"); //include the default header
}
?>

hopefully that helps ya out 😉

[lizzyd]

thanks very much tekky but i still can't get it to work! when i click through to my second page it's only using the default header, even when i've chosen to look at counties in scotland and wales...

here's the url - it might give you a better idea of what i'm trying to do....

http://www.hotelheaven.co.uk

....and this is the code i currently have in the showhotels.php page:

if(isset($_GET['Region'])){  //check if a country name was supplied in the URL 
    $Region = strtolower(trim($_GET['Region']));  //country name found so let's set the country variable, but let's make it all lowercase and remove any blank spaces before and after the country name 
} else { //no country name found 
    $Region = ""; //so we set the variable as blank 
}  

$filename = "header$Region.php"; //build the filename 'headerCOUNTRYNAME.php' where COUNTRYNAME is the name of the country they selected England/whales/etc 
if(file_exists($filename)){ //check if the file $filename exists 
    include ("$filename"); //it does so lets include it 
} else { //it doesn't so.... 
    include ("header.php"); //include the default header 
} 

(I got it wrong earlier - they're actually Regions not Countrys!)

lizzyd

[tekky]

your current page is using links like this...

http://www.hotelheaven.co.uk/showhotels.php?Town=Bath

note, for $_GET['Region'] to work your showhotels.php href would need to also include a &Region=xxxxxxx

or have Town= replaced with Region=

😉

[tekky]

notice that your script DOES work though 😉

http://www.hotelheaven.co.uk/showhotels.php?Region=Scotland
http://www.hotelheaven.co.uk/showhotels.php?Region=Wales
http://www.hotelheaven.co.uk/showhotels.php?Region=England

😉

3 different header images 😉 btw nice pic for Wales

[lizzyd]

hooray tekky!! you're a genius!! i was beginning to think something like that might have been the problem but was a bit too dense to work it all out... i've got it all sussed completely in my head now though and i can go to bed happy!

thank you so much for your time and for explaining everything so helpfully!

take care over there in aurora!

lizzyd

[tekky]

Heh, glad to help, and dont worry, I wont be here (Aurora) much longer thankfully! almost 3 years is more than enough for me :p

[TheDefender]

You all are too quick! Thanks for the follow-up Tekky. Glad you got it working lizzyd!