Dynamic Pages

prslou

I hope that is the correct title for what I'm asking about. I'm taking over a website ( http://www.tamr.org ). This is the bottom line: I'm familar with PHP except for the part when the new pages display dynamically like http://tamr.org/index.php?display=about . I can't figure out how the old webmaster did that. Could anyone put some light on this for me? Thanks.

-Lou

Anon

Yeah, I'm new to PHP but I'm sure its done like this.

<?php
if ($display=="about"){
echo "all the html crap";
}
?>

radley

you would put a script like this

<?php
if (!isset($display)) {
$display = "home";
}
if ($display == "home") {
//do something
} elseif ($display == "about") {
//do something
} else {
//do something
}
?>

of if you wanted to use includes

<?php
if (!isset($display)) {
$display = "home";
}

if (file_exists($display.".html")) {
include($display.".html");
} else {
include("home.html");
}
?>

Anon

ah, I guess if you want you can take a look at my web site to see what I'm talking about. Look on http://maverick.mahan.net/about.php

All that stuff I put needs to go in the top of the index page.

prslou

Thanks so much! That really helped, I've figured it out now.

-Lou

Anon

This question is a little outside of PHP which is great for presenting dynamic pages.
However in this case the sponsoring ISP does not support PHP.

Is there anyway to emulate these things on a simple HTMP page...ie
I'd like to include a months agenda (separate file if pos) based on the calendar month.

The reason being that I'd like to step away from a site that sucks up time when I can least afford it (month-end) I was planning to do something like:
<h2>This Months Calendar of Events</h2>
<xmp>
...some sort of include based on date "may.txt"
</xmp>
no one else in the club knows any languages