[RESOLVED] Front page query

ee12csvt

I am currently building a PHP/SQL site for my brother, it isn't on line yet, but I have a little query how to set a default value in PHP so that the Home page shows when loaded.

An example of what I mean is enter the web address, e.g. www.anyaddress.com, by default it goes to the index.php to display. The framework of the site displays, with menus created using php, but the content section is blank.

Now in my database, the page ID uses PID as it's code. The home page has a pid of the value 1. Therefore after the address www.anyaddress.com/index.php is loaded as before and I click on the 'home' selection, the address changes to

www.anyaddress.com/index.php?pid=1

How do I get this page to load into the browser when someone visiting the site for the first time enters www.anyaddress.com ?

andy75180

Well you could redirect using the .htaccess file if you want. It's quick and easy. If you've never used .htaccess best to read up about it first.

Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.example.com/newpage.html

Are you sure you want to do this though? Search engines will index your page with the pid=1 bit on the end.

ee12csvt

Thanks for the reply Andy, I have used .htaccess before, just thought there may be some other way of doing it.

Weedpacket

If $GET['pid'] doesn't have a value because it wasn't in the URL it can be given a default value with

if(!isset($_GET['pid'])) $_GET['pid']='1';

. But using mod_rewrite to make your URLs look nice and hide all the rude mechanicals of how the site works (chucking pids and whathaveyou about) is good design.

ee12csvt

Weedpacket,

Many thanks for the advice, I have tried adjusting my page and it now works fine.

Just need to look up the mod_rewrite you mentioned now

Thanks again

Phil