A godd solution for a big website?

[Anon]

Hey......does anybody have a good solution for a website with many pages
(no database,please...)
BTW, how do you do this index.php?page=1 , index.php?page=2 , index.php?page=3
Is this easier then having many .php
pages?
(I dont mean .php?id=1 as in databases)

thankx..........

[Anon]

PHP works brilliantly whether you connect to a database or not. I would recommend it without exception.
You can store varaibles in include files for inclusion in specific pages:
eg:

if ($page == 1) {$headline = ("PAGE 1"); }
else if ($page == 2) {$headline = ("PAGE 2"); }
else if ($page == 3) {$headline = ("PAGE 2"); }
else {$headline = ("whatever"); }

then, when you use echo $headline; in the code it will look for the query string and insert the relevant headline

<?
if ($page == "1") {
include ("output_dfs.php");
// or
echo ("page 1 details");
}

if ($page == "2") {
include ("output_c.php");
// or
echo ("page 2 details");
}

if ($page == "3") {
include ("output_cv.php");
// or
echo ("page 3 details");
}
?>

[Anon]

HEy.......You'll have to excuse me, but I'm 100% newbie (I'm 16...) where do I have to put this code?
<?
if ($page == 1) {$headline = ("PAGE 1"); }
else if ($page == 2) {$headline = ("PAGE 2"); }
else if ($page == 3) {$headline = ("PAGE 2"); }
else {$headline = ("whatever"); }
?>
and do I have to change PAGE1, PAGE2 etc? Do I have to change them with url's?

What about this:
<?
if ($page == "1") {
include ("test1.php");
// or
echo ("page 1 details");
}

if ($page == "2") {
include ("test2.php");
// or
echo ("page 2 details");
}

if ($page == "3") {
include ("test3.php");
// or
echo ("page 3 details");
}
?>
Where do I have to insert this code? (in all pages?)
What do I have to do with echo ("page 1 details") ??

Could you please-please-please explain this as if I were 5 years? 🙂

Thanks for your support....I'm really grateful......... 🙂

[Anon]

Try putting this in a .php page:

<?
if ($page == "1") {
echo ("page 1 details");
}

if ($page == "2") {
echo ("page 2 details");
}

if ($page == "3") {
echo ("page 3 details");
}
?>

then saving it as test.php for example in the root of your local server.

Then run that page through your browser as something like http://localhost/test.php?page=1 and if you have php set up correctly and the test.php is in the root of your server then it should print "page 1 details" to your browser or "page 2 details" if you change ?page=1 to ?page=2.

Once you do it once it will all make sense.

[Anon]

Thanks man..........You're great......

If I want HTML instead of "page x details" what can I do? do I have to include an external PHP/HTML page? Or just insert pure HTML?

Thanks again 🙂

[Anon]

you can put pure html inside php tags or around the php code itself.

eg:
echo ("<table border='0'>etc</table>");

note I put border='0' with single quotes as I started the echo with double quotes. If you want to use double quotes inside the echo you'll have to escape them.
eg:
echo ("<table border=\"0\">etc</table>");

If you got this to work, read up about include files and how to use them, then read up about manipulating form data and you'll have a good basic understanding of PHP. Then the skies the limit. I would recommend getting a good php book, Beginning PHP4 by the Wrox Press is an excellent beginners book but I'm sure there are many others out there.

[Anon]

Thanks again! It works fine now...

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If I want to put a whole (HTML) site in the echo (" ") what is your suggest?
Will this work?
<?php include("thefile.html"); ?> or would it be <?php include(\"thefile.html\"); ?>

Thanks for your support ed!!!

[joshsisk]

<?php include("thefile.html"); ?> but depending on your server, you might have to put the absolute path, not the relative. <?php include("/absolute/path/to/thefile.html"); ?>