Making pages using one

[cinos11]

How would you make pages like wordpress does in the sense of website.com/?page=main

I want to be able to have all my urls use this format so i can just change the word of main to a page i made for lets call download making it website.com/?page=download.

How would i be able to do this like other websites have done?

[jl5501]

to do this, you have the actual page content stored in a database, and it is retrieved by page name to display.

[SchweppesAle]

use the $_GET superglobal

 

<?php

if(isset($_GET['page'])
{
$currentPage = $_GET['page'];
}

//do something with currentPage, maybe query the database as the previous post suggested

?>

 

Keep in mind, Wordpress is an actual CMS.  The code necessary to build your own is not even nearly this simple.

[jl5501]

What SchweppesAle has posted is how you get the page from the url.

 

You then need to use that to get the relevant page that you will have stored in the db

[cinos11]

I do not want to have anything to do with a database using Mysql.

I just want it where it will look like website.com/?page=main

while keeping all webpages stored under a different php file to know where the pages main should load and for other pages.

[jl5501]

You asked how wordpress does that. The answer is, it uses a database.

 

With the database solution it can be done. With wanting to make it redirect to other files, then that can also be done, but in my opinion that would be harder, and difficult to maintain.

[cinos11]

Well ive seen a code where it goes something like

header (?page)

case = main

include file.php

include /file.php

case = download

include pages/download.php

include page/footer.php

 

Well it was something like that. But i dont know how to get it to work like that and have the url look like the way i want it to be

 

EDIT: I found part of the code that one of the website has:

switch($getcype){
	case NULL:
		header('Location: ?cype=main');
		break;
	case "main":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/public/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "ucp":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/ucp/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "admin":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/admin/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "gmcp":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/gmcp/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "bbs":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/bbs/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "misc":
		include("sources/misc/main.php");
		break;
	case "style":
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/public/styles.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;
	case "cypedl":
		include("sources/misc/phpdownload.php");
		break;
	default:
		include($styledir."/header.php");
		include("sources/public/main.php");
		include($styledir."/footer.php");
		break;

 

I just don't know how to get it to work knows this kind of information

[Kingy]

<?php
   $page = (isset($_GET['page'])) ? $_GET['page'] : '';

   switch($page)
   {
       case 'news':
       include('news.php');

      default:
      include('main.php');
   }
?>

 

Just add more cases to it, then point your browser to the page index.php?page=news etc. When you don't specify a page= or it the one you do specify doesn't exist then it'll auto revert to main.php

[cinos11]

Which part of the code do i change so the website.com/page.php?(>>>)page(<<<)=hireus

will be different.

Or how about could i be able to have different webpages using the same file with like

website.com/page.php?wow=hireus

website.com/page.php?page=newpeople

website.com/page.php?zomg=wasup

[Kingy]

well using ?one= ?two= or whatever you'll need to use the $_GET method to retrieve all the info

 

page.php?wow=hireus

 

$str = $_GET['wow'];

str will equal hireus.

[cinos11]

Well i tried using this code i tried making using the code provided above.

But when i use the website.com/page.php?ha=hireus

i get the page to load correctly but this error shows up above the whole website how do i fix it?:

Warning: include(main.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Server\www\myserver.dev\vhost\REMOVED\public\page.php on line 11

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'main.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\Server\www\myserver.dev\vhost\REMOVED\public\page.php on line 11

This is the code i made using the code provided:

<?php
   $page = (isset($_GET['page'])) ? $_GET['page'] : '';
   $ha = (isset($_GET['ha'])) ? $_GET['ha'] : '';

   switch($page)
   {
       case 'hireus':
       include('page/hireus.php');

      default:
      include('main.php');
   }
      switch($ha)
   {
       case 'hireus':
       include('page/index.php');

      default:
      include('main.php');
   }
?>

 

EDIT: For the ha one, the page loads but it loads using the default part of the code of page/index.php

it doesnt get the page i picked for it to load, how do i fix it?

 

[Kingy]

you'll need a seperate switch statement for $ha...

[cinos11]

Thank you this thread i have made has been resolved.