Site Menu Question

Rapol

Ok, quick(i hope) question, if you go to My Site and look to the side you will see things such as Home, music vids, short flicks, forum, etc, now my question is, Is there a way i can make a php page and just do an insert so that if i want to change the side bad i change the php page? Because right now if i want to change the side bar, i have to re go through every page (like a few hundred) to change it, and it takes a long time. I know when i do the php insert that i would have to go through and change them all over again, but it would be the last time i would have to, so if you know how can you please share this info with me? Please and thank you

Crowly

Yes you can, you need to check out Include or Require (they are almost simular).

Heres a piece from my script where i do something simular:

  require('top.html');  

  echo "<div id=\"main\">";
  if (!isset($_GET['opt']))
  {
    $_GET['opt']='';
  }
  # start main "window" content
  switch ($_GET['opt'])
  {
    case 'brackets':
      include "brackets.php";
      break;
    case 'signup':
      include "signup.php";
      break;
    case 'reggame':
      include "reggame.php";
      break;
    case 'logout':
      unset($_SESSION['adm']);
      unset($_SESSION['name']);
      header('Location: index.php');
      break;
    default:
      require "results.php";  

      break;
  }
  #end content
  echo "<!-- END content -->";
  #end main

In my menu i uses links like this:

  <a href=\"index.php?opt=brackets&amp;round=1\">Rounds</a>

If you search around this forum you will find several posts about not including filenames or urls like this:

  <a href=index.php?file=some_file.*>something</a>
// ----------
  include $_GET['file'];

Because then someone can include whatever file they want into your script.

reeksy

So basically put your links in one file (named links.php for example) and then replace all your existsing links with this code:

<?
require('links.php');
?>

All your files will then look at that include file for the content. One update and you're done!

Rapol

reeksy wrote:
So basically put your links in one file (named links.php for example) and then replace all your existsing links with this code:
<?
require('links.php');
?>
All your files will then look at that include file for the content. One update and you're done!

Worked like a charm, thanks a ton man