[RESOLVED] switch

as22607

Hi all, got a problem with the switch command

basically i am making awebsite that runs more a less from the index page so i am using for links <a href="index.php?=id">

then on the index page in a serpate div i have this code

switch ($HTTP_GET_VARS[id])
{
//default = news
default: include "news/news.php";
break;
//guides
case 'guides': include 'guides.php';
break;
//contact
case 'contact': include 'contact.php';
break;
}

the news works great it displays it ever time the page laods problem is any of the links i have made so far when i click them they do not load at all on the place where news is

any help will be appericated

NogDog

HTTP_GET_VARS is deprecated and may not be supported by your server. Try using:

switch($_GET['id'])
{

PS: also note that the array index should be quoted (as I did above). While it may seem to work OK without the quotes, it is due to PHP treating it as a self-defined constant instead of a string literal, and this behavior is not guaranteed to be supported in future release (and it also can lead to hard-to debug problems).

Jramz

HTTP_GET_VARS is deprecated and may not be supported by your server. Try using:
PHP Code:
switch($_GET['id'])
{
PS: also note that the array index should be quoted (as I did above). While it may seem to work OK without the quotes, it is due to PHP treating it as a self-defined constant instead of a string literal, and this behavior is not guaranteed to be supported in future release (and it also can lead to hard-to debug problems).

Absolutely!

Also you may want to check the file system and make sure that guides.php and contact.php are in the same folder as the index it self, because without listing a subfolder it's going to default to the folder that the index resides in... just a thought, you probably already checked that, but you never know!

~jeremy

as22607

yeah i had acutally thought it was the page was not there so i doubled checked it was, i knew it should work since it was workign on my on offline server jsut could nto work out why when it was on live server it wasnt but the first poster comments baotu the $http_get_var most be right but i never knew about that but $Get work great

thanks to both of you 🙂

bradgrafelman

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