[Resolved] Something Quick and simple...

[dusty550]

Ive seen many sites where they have like for example:
index.php?page=main

On my website i have a few different .php files for the exact same thing only slightly different news display from an script. I want to do a simular thing.

Currentally in my main index i have

<DIV id=Layer5 
style="Z-INDEX: 4; LEFT: 185px; WIDTH: 450px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 95px; HEIGHT: 300px">
<font color=#8da3ba face=verdana size=1>

<TABLE width="100%" border=0 borderColor="#8da2ba" height="23">
<TBODY>
<TR>
</TR>
</TBODY></TABLE>
<?PHP
$number = "5";
$category = "1";
 include("news/show_news.php");
?>
<BR><BR>
<p></p>
<? require "data.tpl" ?>
<BR><BR>
</FONT></DIV>

And for my other pages simular to the index's main layer all i change is the varible $category = "1"; to 2, 3, 4, etc...

How can i have it so that when i goto:
index.php?page=main has the category as 1
index.php?page=info has category as 2 etc...?

[planetsim]

After searching I came up with these results http://phpbuilder.com/board/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=748566&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

[dusty550]

okay this is my new code

<?php 

if($_GET['page']=='main')  

{  

$number = "5";
$category = "1";
 include("news/show_news.php"); 
}  

elseif($_GET['page']=='info')  

{
$number = "5";
$category = "2";
 include("news/show_news.php");
} 

?>

But now when i goto the index.php it doesn't display anything unless i hit Home or Info, etc... How can i set it so that
?page=main is the default news when you 1st goto my site?

[laserlight]

use an else-statement?

[dusty550]

Originally posted by laserlight
use an else-statement?

how do i do that (Im a huge php newb)

NvM After lots of trial and error i figured out to add this

elseif($_GET['page']=='')
{
$number = "5";
$category = "1";
 include("news/show_news.php");
}