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bdude

Hi. I have never used php before except as phpbb through fantastico.

I would like to have a page like
www.mysite.com/index.php?s=home

and index.php would have our header, footer etc. and call the file listed by s=x
such as ?s=home would call home.htm
and ?s=products would call products.htm.

Is this possible?

kkobashi

Anything is possible. But your question is very general and is based around designing an entire website that involves HTML/CSS/PHP etc.

Best to RTFM.

Frederick

You can easily build it using htm pages but you will restrict yourself later for use with dynamic content. Use home.php, etc.

<?php
$s = $_REQUEST["s"];
if (!isset($s)) { $s = "Home"; }
if (file_exists("$s.php")) {
    $loadpage = @include("$s.php");
    if (!$loadpage) echo "Failed to load page";
} else {
    echo "Sorry, the requested page is not available";
}
?>

If using htm or html pages, just replace the .php above with .htm or .html

Drakla

Originally posted by Frederick

<?php

$s = $_REQUEST["s"];    // <<< OOOPS
if (!isset($s)) { $s = "Home"; } // <<< OOOPS++

// should check isset before the assignment, and only conditionally on it being set

if (isset($_REQUEST['s']))
   $s = $_REQUEST['s'];
else
   $s = 'Home';


if (file_exists("$s.php")) {
    $loadpage = @include("$s.php");
    if (!$loadpage) echo "Failed to load page";
} else {
    echo "Sorry, the requested page is not available";
}
?>

Frederick

For your information, it works great and never an issue. The following uses the same method and there are many more using it.
http://ronfrederick.com/index.php?page=Engine7
http://shadowops.org/index.php?page=Main/Match_List_Active

Drakla

Working 'great' doesn't mean it's not badly programmed - put on error_reporting(E_ALL) and run this

$s = $_REQUEST['foo'];

// checking if something is set AFTER creating it

if (isset($s))
	echo "it's set";
else
	echo "it's not set";

echo "<br>s = $s";	// does this give an error NO because you've set it

echo "<br>q = $q";	// does this give and error YES because you haven't set it

You'll also notice that isset, when used in the wrong way can also be misleading.