~~ Would this Work? ~~

[luqman93]

I am coding a website in php for a school project and have hit a stump.
My pages are loaded with dynamic variables in the url
ie. http://example.com/index.php?page=home
ie. http://example.com/media.php?page=pics&pic=01
etc..

In all these files (index.php , media.php etc) i have one global header which specifys all the head tags and opens the html and body tags. In the content i only now have to add the actual content. This worked fine as i would just specify the page title as a variable before the header file is processed.
i.e <title> <?php ($page_title); ?> </title>

$page_title = "Home Page";

But after i started to add arguments into the url which would fetch different pages,
all those different pages ie ?page=pics ?page=videos etc

the title would be the one specified by the page ie /media.php

To solve this problem i wrote this set of code and was wondering if it would work?

if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("media.php?page=vids")
{
$sub_title = "Videos";
}
else if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=pics")
{
$sub_title = "Pictures";
}
else if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=gifs")
{
$sub_title = "Animated GIFS";
}

I am pretty sure that this would work, so please leave comments.

Also could i add a wildcard such as:

if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=vids"*)
{
$sub_title = "Videos";
}

so if someone went to the page: /media.php?page=vids&vid=01
it would have the same title as : /media.php?page=vids

This is just so i don't have to add a record for each single combination of variables.

Thanks in advance.

[jphilapy]

luqman93 wrote:

To solve this problem i wrote this set of code and was wondering if it would work?

if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("media.php?page=vids")
{
$sub_title = "Videos";
}
else if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=pics")
{
$sub_title = "Pictures";
}
else if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=gifs")
{
$sub_title = "Animated GIFS";
}

I am pretty sure that this would work, so please leave comments.

From a logical standpoint your code works, but the syntax is incorrect. Using your first line of code as an example. Your if statement has the parenthesis in the wrong place:

YOU HAVE: if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("media.php?page=vids")

SHOULD BE: if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == "/media.php?page=vids")

In anycase, why not test for the value of page instead of trying to read the whole url? For example use:

$_GET['page'] //to get the value of page

luqman93 wrote:

Also could i add a wildcard such as:

if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == ("/media.php?page=vids"*)
{
$sub_title = "Videos";
}

so if someone went to the page: /media.php?page=vids&vid=01
it would have the same title as : /media.php?page=vids

This is just so i don't have to add a record for each single combination of variables.

Thanks in advance.

What you ask can be done using regular expressions. The following will make a match within your url. Try this:

if (preg_match("|media\.php\?page=vids|",$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))
{
    $sub_title = "Videos";
}

Hope that helps,
Jeff