php navigation

[Kingy]

Now usually when making a site i'd use the switch() command for navigation to spit out the index.php?page=whatever

 

but for my upcoming website what i'd like to do is just stick with

www.domain.com/whatever/

 

I was wondering if there is some sort of php code that would help will doing this type of navigation or if its just strictly done by using folders.

 

eg: inside the public_html folder have a file called index.php and another folder called members. Inside the members folder have another index.php

 

and from the first index.php just link to <a href="/members/">Members</a>

 

that way it would just open the members index.php. But i'm thinking this would involve a lot of editing if u wanted each index.php to look the same. Change one you gotta change em all.

 

Cheers. Hopefully i explained myself all good

[JasonLewis]

Look around for mod_rewrite tutorials, for some things it can be complicated, but for simple things it can be quite easy.

[barrylee]

Here's what I do

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^([a-z\-]+)$ ../../../../../../../index.php?Function=GetPage&name=$1

 

load that to your root and call it .htaccess

 

in this example I pass the link name into the url, this gets passed into $1, index.php then uses $1 in a query to get the results, ie. select * from pages where link = $1

 

boom there you have it.

 

Just modify this as you need to, you may need to go up or down a level, and your server will have to support this.