Redirecting to another folder.

Dada78

Hello. I am a little lost on somthing. I currently have a default template that I can include with other page so I don't have to build the header and navigation over and over again. with ?page=yadayada. What I have a question about is how to call a page when it is not in the same folder as the index.php. for example I though it was

?page=regions/panhandle_plains

But that didn't seem to work. How to do going about including the default template when the content you want to include is in another folder?

Do I need to include the default template that I want included in the directory with the files?

-Thanks

TheRealPenguin

include "folder/page.php";
should be simple

Dada78

Thank you for the reply, are you referring to adding that to the index.php file that contains

<?php
//grab ?page=pagename
$page=$HTTP_GET_VARS['page'];
$page=str_replace('.','',$page);
$page=str_replace('/','',$page);
if ($page != '') {
$pagefile=($page.'.php');
if (file_exists($pagefile)) {
include($pagefile);
}
else if (!file_exists($pagefile)) {
include('404.php');
} }
else {
include('main.php');
}
?>

Just wanted to make sure I am clear on this.

-Thanks

bpat1434

Not quite.... let's say this:

?page=some/path/page

The following code would get the path of the page to include, and include it:

<?php
$page = $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']; // Deprecated, use $_GET[] if you can....
// This checks to see whether we've accidentally added an extension
$ext = (strpos($page, '.', -6) !== FALSE)? (substr($page, strpos($page, '.', -6), 0)): 'php';
// $ext will hold the extension:
// 1.) Check to see if there is period at most 6 characters from the end 
//           (covers all common extensions (php, html, tpl, shtml...)
// 2.) If there is an extension, the extension is grabbed
// 3.) If no extension, default to php

// Now, remove the extension (makes the script more dynamic)
$page = (strpos($page, '.', -5) !== FALSE)?(substr($page, 0, strlen($page)-strpos($page, '.', -6))):$page;
// $page will hold the actual path and filename (w/o extension)
// 1.) Check to see if there is an extension
// 2.) If there is an extension, remove it and return the string that starts at
//           position 0, and continues until the extension starts
//           ** Could also be done like: $page = str_replace($ext, '', $page); **
// 3.) If no extension, just keep the same value.

if($page != '')
{
    $pagefile = $page.'.'.$ext;
    if(file_exists($pagefile))
    {
        include($pagefile);
    }
    else
    {
        include('404.php');
    }
}
else
{
    include('main.php');
}
?>

As long as this php file that includes the other files is in a parent directory, it will work.

What is wrong with your current code is that you are taking the path "path/page" and stripping the "/" off, as well as any "." so that this:
path/page.php
becomes
pathpagephp

What I've done is improved your code so this:
path/page.php
becomes
$page = path/page
$ext = php

~Brett

Dada78

Thank you for the explanation and for cleaning up my code. It works now with one small error. This is what I am getting at the top of all my pages.

Warning: strpos(): Offset not contained in string. in /home/texascam/public_html/2006/index.php on line 50

Warning: strpos(): Offset not contained in string. in /home/texascam/public_html/2006/index.php on line 53

Could you explain what that means. I will do a google in the meantime.

-Thanks

bpat1434

Chagne all strpos() to strrpos(). That was my error....

so it should be:

<?php
$page = $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']; // Deprecated, use $_GET[] if you can....
// This checks to see whether we've accidentally added an extension
$ext = (strpos($page, '.', -6) !== FALSE)? (substr($page, strrpos($page, '.'), 0)): 'php';
// $ext will hold the extension:
// 1.) Check to see if there is period at most 6 characters from the end
//           (covers all common extensions (php, html, tpl, shtml...)
// 2.) If there is an extension, the extension is grabbed
// 3.) If no extension, default to php

// Now, remove the extension (makes the script more dynamic)
$page = (strpos($page, '.', -5) !== FALSE)?(substr($page, 0, strlen($page)-strrpos($page, '.'))):$page;
// $page will hold the actual path and filename (w/o extension)
// 1.) Check to see if there is an extension
// 2.) If there is an extension, remove it and return the string that starts at
//           position 0, and continues until the extension starts
//           ** Could also be done like: $page = str_replace($ext, '', $page); **
// 3.) If no extension, just keep the same value.

if($page != '')
{
    $pagefile = $page.'.'.$ext;
    if(file_exists($pagefile))
    {
        include($pagefile);
    }
    else
    {
        include('404.php');
    }
}
else
{
    include('main.php');
}
?>

It basically means that the string wasn't as long as the offset... but we circumvent that issue by using strrpos() which searches for the last occurance in the string, instead of the first...

~Brett

Dada78

I am still getting the error. Should this line.

(strpos($page, '.', -5)

(strrpos($page, '.', -5).

added a r to strrpos and a . after ) is that correct? Now I haven't made this change yet.

-Thanks

bpat1434

oops.... sorry, here's the corrected code:

<?php
$page = $HTTP_GET_VARS['page']; // Deprecated, use $_GET[] if you can....
// This checks to see whether we've accidentally added an extension
$ext = (strrpos($page, '.') !== FALSE)? (substr($page, strrpos($page, '.'), 0)): 'php';
// $ext will hold the extension:
// 1.) Check to see if there is period at most 6 characters from the end
//           (covers all common extensions (php, html, tpl, shtml...)
// 2.) If there is an extension, the extension is grabbed
// 3.) If no extension, default to php

// Now, remove the extension (makes the script more dynamic)
$page = (strrpos($page, '.') !== FALSE)?(substr($page, 0, strlen($page)-strrpos($page, '.'))):$page;
// $page will hold the actual path and filename (w/o extension)
// 1.) Check to see if there is an extension
// 2.) If there is an extension, remove it and return the string that starts at
//           position 0, and continues until the extension starts
//           ** Could also be done like: $page = str_replace($ext, '', $page); **
// 3.) If no extension, just keep the same value.

if($page != '')
{
    $pagefile = $page.'.'.$ext;
    if(file_exists($pagefile))
    {
        include($pagefile);
    }
    else
    {
        include('404.php');
    }
}
else
{
    include('main.php');
}
?>

~Brett

Dada78

Thank you for your help, So was it because the first strrpos were missing a r? after looking over the code that was the only thing I could notice as I noticed the second strrpos in the string had 2 r's.

All is working now though. Sp would this also work for multi dir. Lets say ?page=dir/dir/file?

-Thanks

bpat1434

Yes, it should work for multi dirs. You should be able to do it.

And the difference is this:

Initial code had:
strpos($page, '.', -6)

Working code has:
strrpos($page, '.')

I took out the offset (that was throwing the error), and used a different version of the same function to look for the last occurance of a period (which would delimite an extension (normally))

~Brett

Dada78

Well thank you for your help. I definately learn more and more every day from here. I try to read and learn as much as I can on my own, but sometimes I just get stuck.