Multi-Step Files

Terran

My question is, how do you make files such as those website files you see where instead of having separate pages like this:

http://www.website.com/form.php

http://www.website.com/list.php

They have one file with different "actions" like this:

http://www.website.com/index.php?action=form
http://www.website.com/index.php?action=list

I understand that "action" is a variable but I don't understand how to get all of that stuff seamlessly into a file.

Another example that is probably more applicable to me right now is a story. Say I want to make something that displays a paragraph and then when you click next, "moves on" in the story (displays another paragraph). How do you do this while keeping the order?

How do you integrate the HTML properly? Thanks.

devinemke

Originally posted by Terran
My question is, how do you make files such as those website files you see where instead of having separate pages like this:

http://www.website.com/form.php

http://www.website.com/list.php

They have one file with different "actions" like this:

http://www.website.com/index.php?action=form
http://www.website.com/index.php?action=list

I understand that "action" is a variable but I don't understand how to get all of that stuff seamlessly into a file.

if ($_GET['action'] == 'form')
{
	// code for form
}

if ($_GET['action'] == 'list')
{
	// code for list
}

Originally posted by Terran
Another example that is probably more applicable to me right now is a story. Say I want to make something that displays a paragraph and then when you click next, "moves on" in the story (displays another paragraph). How do you do this while keeping the order?

How do you integrate the HTML properly? Thanks.

same basic idea as above

if ($_GET['paragraph'] == 1)
{
	echo 'this is paragraph 1';
}

if ($_GET['paragraph'] == 2)
{
	echo 'this is paragraph 2';
}

Terran

Wow, thanks.

So say I want to get the user to page 2 from page 1. I can just put up a link like this: http://www.website.com/index.php?page=2

echoing HTML? Or would it be better to do something internal within the PHP script?

devinemke

index.php could either echo the output directly or perhaps it could [man]include[/man] a filename derived from the passed GET var.

Terran

Ok thank you.