echo text based on the url

[PlagueInfected]

im trying to code this little script to where if you're on this page, you echo this and if you're on that page you echo that text.

 

here is the current code i tried and no luck with it, any ideas?

 

<title>

<?php 
$page = array();
$page = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$directory_no = count($page) - 2;
$directory = $page[$directory_no];
define (DIRECTORY, $directory);

if (DIRECTORY == '/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif (DIRECTORY == '/?pg=index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';	
}
elseif (DIRECTORY == 'contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';	 
}

elseif (DIRECTORY == 'portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio'; 	
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

	?>
</title>

[mattal999]

Well firstly try echoing DIRECTORY to see what you get. Tell us what the output is.

[PlagueInfected]

it just echo 'inc'

 

idk how to get it to do what it's supposed to do

[Mardoxx]

http://www.mysite.com/index.php

 

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] => /index.php

 

$page = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

 

$page[1] = index.php

 

 

 

http://www.mysite.com/

 

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] => /

 

$page = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

 

$page =

 

 

try removing your slashes

 

[Mardoxx]

can you give the URL to where this is being called/run from?

 

because $directory_no = count($page) - 2; comes out negative if it's run at server root

[PlagueInfected]

done it, still doesn't echo the right text on the page i want it to echo on

[mattal999]

I think you want to replace this:

 

$directory_no = count($page) - 2;

 

With:

 

$directory_no = count($page);

[PlagueInfected]

just tried it and no luck =/

[mikesta707]

$page = array();
$page = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$directory_no = count($page) -1;
$directory = $page[$directory_no];

 

this line: $directory_no = count($page) - 2;

 

should be -1, because you want to get the last entry in your exploded array (which would be the page itself) -2 will give you the second to last, and in many cases, that is also the first, and sometimes it will become -1.

 

 

Hope that helps

[PlagueInfected]

still doesn't change the tags, tried adding -1 to it and no joy

[mikesta707]

echo the directory variable (both your constant and the variable itself) and see what happens. Perhaps the variable isn't the value you expect it to be

[PlagueInfected]

just adds -1 to the text on the first page, and the tags still don't change when i jump to another page

[mikesta707]

wait so when you echo the variable it just shows "-1" at the end of the word? what does your code look like now

[PlagueInfected]

like this...

 

<title>

<?php 
$page = array();
$page = explode("/", $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$directory_no = count($page);
$directory = $page[$directory_no] -1;

if ($directory == '/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif ($directory == '/?pg=index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

      ?>
</title>

[mikesta707]

And it doesn't work for any of the pages? When you echoed them what did they say?

 

oh and the URL won't look like this : /?pg=index

 

index.php in that case. But the others should be fine.

 

try also doing a print_r on $page and see what it holds

[PlagueInfected]

it will echo

 

Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico

 

and i added my site's URL and it still gave me the first tag

 

print_r doesn't seem to do it, here is how i coded it

 

<?php 
$page = array();
$page = print_r("/", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$directory_no = count($page);
$directory = $page[$directory_no] -1;

if ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/?pg=index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

      ?>

[mikesta707]

this is not going to work. $_PHPSELF returns the page your are currently on, sans any paths to the document itself. So if i'm on www.facebook.com/books/awesome.php and I echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] it will echo "/awesome.php" You are trying to test the variable against a full URL and it will never ever match those.

 

none of those will work. And Echo the variable itself. As in change your code to

 

$page = array();
$page = print_r("/", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$directory_no = count($page);
$directory = $page[$directory_no] -1;
print_r($page);
echo $directory;

if ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/?pg=index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

 

that will tell you what the actual variable itself looks like, and what you should change your test too

[PlagueInfected]

tried it again, it only pulls -1 than the tag 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico'

 

so it looks like this

 

'/-1lague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico'

 

$page = array();
$page = print_r("/", $PHP_SELF);
$directory_no = count($page);
$directory = $page[$directory_no] -1;
print_r($page);
echo $directory;

if ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/?pg=index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'http://plagueinfected.com/portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

[mikesta707]

oh dude my bad. I'm an idiot

 

$page = array();
$page = print_r("/", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$directory_no = count($page) - 1;
$directory = $page[$directory_no];

 

subtracted from the wrong variable. try that, with the echos and see what happens

[PlagueInfected]

just gives me // and Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico

 

//Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico

[mikesta707]

oh didn't notice something in your code above

 

when I said print_r I meant

 

print_r($page);

 

not to do

$page = print_r("/", $PHP_SELF);

 

that is messing up your variables. change it back to

 

$page = explode("/", $PHP_SELF);

 

or whatever it was before

[PlagueInfected]

ok did what u did and i got this

 

<title>

Array
(
    [0] => 
    [1] => inc
    [2] => head.php
)
head.phpPlague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico</title>

 

[mikesta707]

ok thats good. you can get rid of the echos and stuff. Just change your if statements accordingly, like for that page it should be

 

if ($directory == "head.php"){
echo "whatever";
}

[PlagueInfected]

ok done it

 

still echos the first line

 

dont know if i did it right with the calling

 

<?php 
$page = array();
$page = explode("/", $PHP_SELF);
$directory_no = count($page) - 1;
$directory = $page[$directory_no];

if ($directory == '/') {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}

elseif ($directory == 'index') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}
      ?>

[mikesta707]

elseif ($directory == 'index') {

 

needs to be index.php

 

if ($directory == '/') {

doesn't mean anything and will never actually run true. You are only seeing this line because it is also echoed in the else clause.

 

I would set it up like this:

 

<?php 
$page = array();
$page = explode("/", $PHP_SELF);
$directory_no = count($page) - 1;
$directory = $page[$directory_no];

if ($directory == 'index.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Index';   
}
elseif ($directory == 'contact.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Contact';    
}

elseif ($directory == 'portfolio.php') {
    echo 'Plague Infected | Portfolio';    
}
else {
    echo 'Plague Infected Designs | Freelance art and web design and development in Fort Worth TX and Puerto Rico';
}
      ?>