Page to load a new page?

[Poomerio]

So, about a year ago, I wrote a piece of code that let me view index.php as the home, then have it change to index.php?=contacts to load the contacts page.

Anyone know how I can achieve this again?

[jib0]

Actually there is missing the name of the variable you are passing by URL. YOu should write something like index.php?somevar=contacts. Then at the beginning of your index file you can set it to 'contacts' so it is the default value of the variable.

[yamarc]

Feeling generous. 🙂 Wrote you a quick easy to use function.

<?php

// Change $allowed_pages to contain the files you want to be allowed to load
function load_page_from_url($key) {
	$allowed_pages = array('home.html', 'about.html', 'contact.html');
	$allowed_page_names = array();
	for($i = 0; $i < count($allowed_pages); $i++) {
		// Get name without extension to $split
		$split = explode('.', $allowed_pages[$i]);
		array_pop($split);
		$split = implode('.', $split);
		$allowed_page_names[$split] = $allowed_pages[$i];
	}
	$requested_page = $_GET[$key];
	if(array_key_exists($requested_page, $allowed_page_names)
		return file_get_contents($allowed_page_names[$requested_page]);
	// You can change 'throw new Exception' to 'die' if you want.
	throw new Exception('404: Page not found');
}

// Example usage (considering URI is x.com/index.php?page=something:

// header here
echo load_page_from_url('page');
// footer here

// Courtesy of http://serialize.us :)

Also added this to my blog.