[SOLVED] Include Help

[jptristam]

I don't really know how to word this, but here we go.

 

I want to have a PHP include on one page, so I can have ONE homepage as a template. So when I type in http://url.com/index.php?page=about.html it brings me to about. But I also want the script to get index.php?page=news.html defaulty. So if I go to http://url.com it goes to index.php?page=news.html, but when I click any other other link it goes there.

 

Kind of a rough explanation, but any suggestions?

[jptristam]

Any help would be appreciated.

[Philip]

if(!$_GET['page']) 
    $pageToInclude = 'news.html';

[jptristam]

When I put that into the index.php file, it did nothing. I put

 

 

<?php
if(!$_GET['page']) 
    $pageToInclude = 'asdf.html';
?>.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[Philip]

Well, that was just an example.

 

Post your code that you're using now, and 'll try my best to explain how to integrate it & possibly improve your current code.

[jptristam]

This is all I got... I want it to go to "index.php?page=main.html" when I go to jptristam.net. Then from there I want to be able to click a link, say about, and go to index.php?page=about.html.

 

I have no PHP currently, I deleted it cause it did not work.

[Philip]

Okay, we're going to use GET variables, which are the ones in the url.

 

So, if I visit foo.com/bar.php?var=value, I can do the following:

<?php
echo $_GET['var'];
// this will show "value"
?>

 

So, in your case we can do a few things... a switch statement or use arrays

 

I'd recommend going with arrays, as it's the easiest to update.... let me get you some code real quick. If you have access to the server, play around with trying the code above

[jptristam]

I used a conditional statement and got it to work. Thanks anyways!

[Philip]

<?php
// get the URL variable
$pageVar = $_GET['page'];

// create an array of acceptable pages the user can load:
$acceptable = array('main', 'about', 'news', 'contact');

// let's check to see if the variable in the url is in the array or not:
if(!empty($pageVar) && in_array($pageVar, $acceptable)) {
// load the page


} else {
// that page is invalid!
// we can show an error page, or redirect the to the 
// default page


}
?>

 

I'm not sure how you want to include the pages, but that's the basic syntax