include a page

greatepier

I am a noob and need some help

I want to replace the frames in my current webpage.
So I borrowed some script from wordpress (blog php) and created

Leftmenu.php - index.php - Rightmenu.php

With css file it makes the style. So far all well.

In the leftmenu.php I want to make a link with is included in the index.php.
In some examples I see:
<a href="index.php?page_id=3" >link page 3 </a>

My question : can I replace page_id=3 for another command to open a file called e.g. "page2.php" ?

etully

No. I've never used the script you're using but in general, somewhere a list of page_id's are assigned. When index.php runs, it sees what ID# you want to include and it does a lookup on "3" to determine which page should be included.

So, wherever that list of ID's is assigned (maybe a database, maybe it's a hard coded array in index.php, maybe it's included from a config file somewhere else), you would need to find the next page ID that's not used (if they assign 27 page ID's, you would assign 28 and make it the page that you want to be included.)

Then you could say: <a href="index.php?page_id=28" >link to greatepier's page</a>

leatherback

And I'll say yes 🙂, you could, but.. (Yes, there is a but).. It depends a lot on what your website actually consists of.. And as we do not know your code, it is a bit dificult to judge which trouble you run into..

Assuming that the index.php holds the formatting of the page, and that includes the menu pages, You'd have to add the formatting code to each page you want to show. You'd then have a static website, which does not use the full potential of PhP, and PhP is basically only used to avoid having to update the menu every time for every page.

IF you are running it from a database/using file-content includes, then you would have to pass parameters to actually know which file to get / record to retrieve from the database (And that is what the ?page_id=28 does). But you could use mod_rewrite to use:
..index/page/28
instead of
..index.php?page_id=28

However, this takes some study.