Alternate code?

[Dossy]

I've made a website that I have been using for around a month, and for each page it uses the GET for the variable 'content'. This then goes into a huge if statement, which looks something like:

 

<?php
if ($_GET['content'] == "home") {
echo 'This is my Homepage';
}
elseif ($_GET['content'] == "shoutbox") {
$this->permission_check(1);
$this->shoutbox();
}
# Lots more elseifs
else {
header("Location: ?error=1");
}
?>

 

I have been wondering if there is any other way to echo out the pages in a similar way?

 

Also, can you put PHP code inside a database table and use it as PHP instead of just echoing it out?

 

Thanks!

[jonsjava]

a fast method is turning your page name/title into array key=>value pairs

<?php
$allowed_pages = array();
$allowed_pages['home'] = "This is my Homepage";
$allowed_pages['shoutbox'] = "This is the shoutbox";
if (array_key_exists($_GET['content'], $allowed_pages)){
echo $allowed_pages[$_GET['content']];
}
else{
header("location:?error=1");
}
?>

[premiso]

If each condition has it's own deal, sadly no. You would need an if statement or a Switch/Case statement. The switch might be better suited for this.

 

Either way the, logic has to stay in there.

 

If the code does get put into MySQL (which there is no reason to do it cause you would have the same amount of code, just more strain on your db) you would have to use eval to run that code out of the db.

[Dossy]

@jonsjava:

I had done that before but most of my pages are fairly dynamic and you can't run functions through arrays... can you?

 

@premiso

Oh, OK... How would I go about doing a switch?

 

 

Thanks for the quick replies!

[premiso]

<?php

$action = isset($_GET['content'])?$_GET['content']:'home';

switch($action) {
    default:
    case 'home':
          echo 'You are home!';
    break;
    case 'shoutbox':
           // code for the shoutbox
    break;
    case 'aboutus':
          // code for about us
    break;
}

?>

 

Makes it a bit nicer so you do not have to always do the conditionals/brackets, but yea just about as much work.

[Dossy]

Thanks very much