[index.php?page=news.php (Include function)]

Makes sense. Thanks, Obsidian! You've helped a lot!

[index.php?page=news.php (Include function)]

Alright, I've done this before, and it's taking a lot for me to remember exactly how it was done. In a perfect world, one would go to the index.php page consisting of:

[code]<?PHP

include ('top.php');

if (!$page)
{
    $page = "news";
}

include ($page . ".php");

include ('bot.php');

?>[/code]

And be automatically shown the top third, the content in the middle, and the closing third. The links to other content then look something like this:

[code]<li><a href="index.php?page=news">News</a></li>[/code]

However, the result of this script is an include error that's now creating too busy of a server for me (my host must love me =) ).

Any ideas why it can't find the correct file to include? I'm sure it's just a simple matter of syntax, it's been many a moon since I last coded. Thanks much in advance, PHPFreaks has always been timely and decisive!

- Icbat