HELP with IF Statement

[jjoves]

I am a newbie with PHP and would like to get help somehow...

I have the following code with the include statement but I wanted to incorporate the if for the menu part

I wanted to load different include statement everytime I click on a menu...

so if I click on
menu1 - it will load news1 and main1
menu2 - it will load news2 and main2
and so forth

But I dont want to break the table if possible.

THANKS

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<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><?php include "header.php";?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="27%" height="104" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#999999"></td>
    <td height="38">
<a href="index.php?x=menu1">menu1</a> | 
<a href="index.php?x=menu2">menu2</a> | 
<a href="index.php?x=menu3">menu3</a> | 
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="86"><?php include "temp_news.php";?>NEWS-1</td>
    <td><?php include "temp_main.php";?>MAIN-1</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><?php include "temp_info.php";?></td>
    <td><?php include "temp_footer.php";?></td>
  </tr>
</table>

[herve]

You can do that with some if() but, since there's only one variable to test,
a switch() statement is more "elegant" 🙂

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"><?php include "header.php";?></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="27%" height="104" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#999999"></td>
    <td height="38">
<a href="index.php?x=menu1">menu1</a> |
<a href="index.php?x=menu2">menu2</a> |
<a href="index.php?x=menu3">menu3</a> |
</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>

  <?PHP

$x = $_REQUEST["x"];

switch ($x)
{
      case "menu1":
    		$news = "temp_news.php";
    		$main = "temp_main.php";
    		break;
   	case "menu2":
    		$news = "temp_news2.php";
    		$main = "temp_main2.php";
   			break;
   	case "menu3":
    		$news = "temp_news3.php";
    		$main = "temp_main3.php";
   			break;
}

print "<td height=\"86\">";
include $news;
print "</td>";
print "<td>";
include $main;
print "</td>;                        

  ?>

  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><?php include "temp_info.php";?></td>
    <td><?php include "temp_footer.php";?></td>
  </tr>
</table> 

And if you want, you can delete any test, like that :

    <?PHP

$x = $_REQUEST["x"];

// Get the number in "menu1", "menu2", "menu3", etc.
// num = 1, 2, 3, etc.

$num = substr($x,4,1); 

// Concatenate the number we get with script's names

$news = "temp_news$num.php"; 
$main = "temp_main$num.php";

print "<td height=\"86\">";
include $news;
print "</td>";
print "<td>";
include $main;
print "</td>;                        

?>