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[HasmanNNC]

... I couldn't find anything to properly answer my question. I read the PHP Faq, and the link for the rest of Dynamic URLs was dead. Its a stupid question, I know, but I really need help, so please dont just hit back :P

Anyways, I wanted to display my content as: http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=whatever.htm

Before I had bought a host, I was using hostultra and the following script worked:

<?php include ("$page"); ?>

I would type that where I wanted the external page to display, and it would display there automatically. This way, I could create a page with only text and it would display on the index.php file providing I typed the correct URL. However, I recently bought a server from GoDaddy and I transfered my website over, but the include didn't work. Instead, I was forced to create a seperate PHP file for every page and include a header.php and menu.php. I realised that if ever I want to change layouts, I'll have to change every single page. I'm wondering how I can fix this problem, and whether or not its a matter of editing php.ini or not. I know this is a dumb question, but the dumber, the easier to answer right? Please help me. If

[hostfreak]

Put this on your index page where you want the content to be displayed (generally somewhere under your header and above your footer):

[code]
$pathToMainPage = "index.php";
$pathTo404Page = "404.php";
if(isset($_GET['page']))
{
$pathToIncludePage = $_GET['page'].=".html";
if(file_exists($pathToIncludePage))
{
include $pathToIncludePage;
}
else
{
include $pathTo404Page;
}
}
else
{
include $pathToMainPage;
}
[/code]
You will need to change the paths to your main page and 404 page. With that you should be able to access a page via: http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=whatever
Note: you do not need to include the .html

[HasmanNNC]

Thanks for the quick reply :) Do I change the $pathToIncludePage; to $http://www.domain.com/whatever.htm; or the absoulute path? like $/home/h/a/s/public_HTML/whatever.htm ?

[hostfreak]

Leave the $pathToIncludePage as is. The only time you would change anything within it would be if you wanted to include a different extension (say .php instead of .html) or want to change the (page?=) to something like (id?=). Then for the 404.php, just use 404.php or whatever your error page is. On the $pathToMainPage = "index.php"; you can include your news or what have you.

[HasmanNNC]

Many thanks! Problem is solved and it finally works. :)