[SOLVED] I remember but where...

[paulman888888]

I remember seeing this on this site before but i coulnt remember the link or what to search.

 

The problem was that someone wanted to use the get command to find pages.

eg

 

index.php?where=contact

 

and the php script is abit like this

 

<?php

 

$sws=$_GET['where']

 

//the problem is here

 

//i dont know how to right it

 

include 'pages/' $sws '.php'

 

?>

 

Hope you understand the question

 

 

thankyou

paul

[ag3nt42]

i don't really understand your question..

 

but to use GET you need to first use a form (usually)

 

<form action='page.php' method='get'>

<input type='text' value='' name='Something' />

<input type='submit' name='submit' value='Submit Me!' />

</form>

 

then on the (page.php)

 

<?php

$Something=$_GET['Something'];

?>

 

 

the http url would look similar to this

 

http://something.com/page.php?Something=TheValue

 

 

hmm.. to get pages??

 

maybe like this?

 

<?php

if($_GET['Something']==Contact)
{
require('contact.php'); //Would include the page and show the data on contact.php
}

?>

[LemonInflux]

Student from the UK, doing Unit 2 on the atain course? Haha, great fun (not).

[anon_login_001]

Are you trying to make sure the file exists before loading/including it?

Or making sure the user has the right to access a particular page?

[mbeals]

I remember seeing this on this site before but i coulnt remember the link or what to search.

 

The problem was that someone wanted to use the get command to find pages.

eg

 

index.php?where=contact

 

and the php script is abit like this

 

<?php

 

$sws=$_GET['where']

 

//the problem is here

 

//i dont know how to right it

 

include 'pages/' $sws '.php'

 

?>

 

Hope you understand the question

 

 

thankyou

paul

 

include 'pages/' $sws '.php'

 

isn't valid code and may be your issue.

 

try this:

 

<?php

$sws=$_GET['where'];


include "pages/$sws.php";

?>

 

This will take any name in the GET 'where' variable and attempt to find and load that page (plus the php extension) from the pages dir.

 

Notice...you need to end all statements with a semicolon (.  Also, when building strings you have to concatenate them properly.  Enclosing a string with double quotes ("  ") tells php to parse the contents and operate on special chars.  So variables will be dereferenced and special characters like \n will be turned into their proper form.  Single quotes tell php to treat it literally.

 

$test = "hello world";

echo "$test";  // this will echo "hello world" to the browser
echo '$test';  // this will echo "$test" to the browser

 

You can concatenate with periods as well

ie:

 

include "pages/$sws.php";

##can be written as 

include 'pages/'.$sws.'.php';

 

The "pages/" and ".php" strings are taken as literals and are tacked onto the value of $sws