[RESOLVED] URLs Based off Variables

[David03]

I recently used variables in my URLs for simplicity sake but switched to another method. Now I want to go back again and use them. However I cannot seem to do so. It is a strange problem. The code I am using is:

<?php

if($pg == "")
{
include("home.php");    //include the home page
}
else    //if $pg points to a specified page...
{
include($pg . ".php");
}

?>

However for some strange reason, this no longer works on my server. The error I get says that it is trying to open a file named ".php", for some odd reason it doesn't get the variable I put in it like: index.php?pg=games/game1

Please help if you know what is going on! Thanks!

[bpat1434]

yeah, you don't have register_globals turned on!! As a security feature, they should be turned off. Seems so in this case. So add this line just above the if() statement:

$pg = $_GET['pg'];

That should solve all your problems.

~Brett

[gardnc]

I think you are missing:

$pg = $_GET['pg'];

to set the variable $pg from the query string variable "index.php?pg=games/game1"

[David03]

Thanks guys! It worked great!