PHP layout problem

[key_uk]

hello,

I have a problem with my php layout on my website, basically I have my website set up with different sections like this:

<div id="maincontainer">
<div id="topsection"><?php include("http://www.indie-design.co.uk/topsection.html"); ?></div>
<div id="leftcolumn"><?php include("http://www.indie-design.co.uk/leftcolumn.html"); ?></div>
<div id="rightcolumn"><?php include("http://www.indie-design.co.uk/rightcolumn.html"); ?></div>

<div id="contentwrapper">

<?php if($searching){include("searchresults.php"); }
else{include("page2.php");}?>

</div>

<div id="footer"><?php include("http://www.indie-design.co.uk/footer.html"); ?></div>
</div>

This works correctly, but now I have hyperlinks on my searchresults.php page, when the user clicks on these hyperlinks I want the user to be taken from the searchresults.php page and into a new page called cdinformation.php in the div id contentwrapper.

At the moment I have the code:

<?php if($searching){include("searchresults.php"); }
else{include("page2.php");}?>

Do I need to add a new elseif or something else to include the page cdinformation.php?

Thanks, hope this makes sense,

key_uk

[benracer]

if i understand correctly you want a search page to contain hyperlinks that when clicked take the user to that particular page, if so how are you going to pass the information? using the $_GET function or a particular static url?

[key_uk]

I have managed to pass the information through using the page cdinformation.php, I just want allow the user to go from the searchresults.php to the cdinformation.php. Just dont know how to do this

[benracer]

You have not explaind very well what you require, wouldnt a duplicate of the page above work, with a hyperlink from search results to the duplicate page called cdinformation.php work but change the include to a different file?

[bradgrafelman]

When posting PHP code, please use the board's [PHP][/PHP] bbcode tags - they make the code much, much easier to read (as well as aiding the diagnosis of syntax errors). You should edit your post now and add these bbcode tags to help others in reading/analyzing your code.

Though this doesn't directly relate to your problem, I want to point out your use if include/require() along with a URL. Not only should you never use include/require with a URL, but you a) probably don't have PHP code in the files, so there's no need to use include/require on static HTML - instead use [man]readfile/man, and b) should not be using a URL at all (assuming these files are on your webserver). For more information on why a URL is different than using the local filepath, see this post I made in a different thread.

As to your issue, are you saying you simply want to change a part of your page but leave the rest the same? If so, you might look into using frames (e.g. an iframe). Otherwise, you could go for the more complicated approach and use AJAX to make a request to your server, get the HTML output, and then replace document.getElementById('contentwrapper').innerHTML with this data.