[Resolved] Internal Page Include

Beavis2084

Hello,

I am trying to write a page that has an include within.

I want to have links on the page that will change the include.

I cant figure out how to have the page on first load ( http://domain.com/index.php ) make the include be some set page ( like "news.php" for example), then with links coded like this,

<a href=http://domain.com/index.php?weather>Weather</a>

make the page reload, using the variable 'weather' in the include statment.

ideas?

I have sucessfully done a similar page that has an area that is filled with data from an include after clicking on a link, but the area is empty before hand. in this case, i need the area to be filled with a "default" page.

Beavis2084

hyp0r

Just set the default content before you pull the query string.

$content = 'news';
if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
   $content = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
}

rehfeld

be carefull using variables to form a filename to include

read this

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10289483

Beavis2084

that all looked promising, but it still does not work.

if a variable is NOT passed, it gives me a "i could not include '' in index.php at line X " error message.

this is as simple as it needs to be....

<?php
echo "<html><body>";
echo "<p>This is the page top</p>";
$maindata = 'default.php';

if_(isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']))_{ 
___$maindata_=_$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; 
}

include "$maindata";

<p>End of page</p>
</body></html>
?>

Any ideas??

Beavis2084

rehfeld

dont use $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']

thats a bad idea.....
it would work in this specific situation, but you will likely run into problems doing that.

<a href=http://domain.com/index.php?page=weather>Weather</a>




if (!empty($_GET['page'])) {
    $page = $_GET['page'];
} else {
    $page = 'default';
}

include $page;

thats very insecure though. read that link i posted further up the page.

Beavis2084

your code works great!

thank you!