Content script

longroad

I use a content script on my site which passes the query string to show the website Im linking to.
eg:
www.domain.com/index.php?content=home

I dont know much PHP and i got this script off a friend. I can work it all fine.
However, what i do want to know is, how can i use this so my site doesn't just rely on the layout of index.php ?
Ie, currently, index.php contains all layout and navigation and the individual content files just contain content.

I dont want all my pages to contain the same navigation. I want the index layout used on some pages, but I want another layout containing different navigation template images for other content pages, if that makes any sense.

I tried creating a copy of content.php and naming it something else and calling that from the link, but it doesnt work (doesnt show the content), I assume because content.php is the default and I have to use index.php.

My content script:

<? 
if( isset($_GET['content']) ) { 
   $content = $_GET['content']; 
} else { 
   $content = "home"; 
} 

if ($_GET['content'] == 'index') $content = 'home';

$newcontent = $content . ".php";    

include ("$newcontent"); 
?>

If this makes any sense, I would appreciate some help.. if you need more information or i dont make sense, just ask 🙂

Thanks

bpat1434

I personally woudl build a template, and tehn depending upon the content, use a different template to show the page. Easy enough.

Building a Template Parser in PHP

Basically, you'd create a .tpl (or htm html) file that includes basic "tags" that can be replaced with content. You write a class that parses the template file and outputs what you want. You can see a current idea of a template parser at the site I'm working on (no different templates yet, but it's easier to update the html using a template than just each php page).
My Test Site

Basically, my *.tpl file says this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en-US">
<head>
	<title>{Title}</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id='wrapper'>
	<div id='header'></div>
	<div id='navigation'>
		<ul id='nav'>
</ul>
	</div>

<div id='content'>
	<div id='left'>{Main_Content}</div>

	<div id='right'>
		<div class='item'>{News}</div>
		<div class='item'>{Events}</div>
		<div class='item'>{Stats}</div>
</div>
	</div>
	<div id='footer'><p class="copy">{Copyright}</p></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Notice the "tags" {News}, {Events}, {Stats}, {Copyright}, {Main_Content}. The template parser will replace that with whatever content you want, and yet the output will be different per each template you want to use.

~Brett