[RESOLVED] Changing pages

pburness

What is the correct way of moving to a new page?

normally i would do:

include "newpage.php"

when I wanted to display newpage.

Is this the best way or is there another (better) way?

drew010

perhaps using [man]header[/man]. not quite clear on what you mean by move to a new page. include doesnt move the client to a new page, it actually brings the contents of that page into the current script thats being executed.

pburness

when I reach a particular point in code I may want to 'display | push' a different page to the browser. for instance, if I am currently displaying page A.php with a table and some data on, then depending upon a condition I want to display B.php with a different table and different data on how is the best way to do it?

Does that help or confuse further?

drew010

yeah, include in that case would probably be the best way to do it.
header is used for actually sending the user to a different page altogether.

things like this are common when needed

if ($somecondition) {
  include 'thisfile.php';
} else {
  include 'thatfile.php';
}

pburness

Thanks,
Thats basically what I have but was not sure if there is a better way of doing it.