Question on how to check if a user is on a certain page

[NathanDrake]

Hi, I'm trying to change an OpenSource software that is using PHP code, I'm somewhat new to PHP and am wanting to learn more on it, but I'm having trouble a couple of things.

 

On rightcolumn.tpl, I include another file called login_rightside.tpl where it is a login box. What I want to do is if the user clicks "Register" and gets taken to "signup.php" then that login box on "login_rightside.tpl" should disappear. So basically my pseudocode is this:

if (current page = signup.php
do nothing
else
{include file="login_leftside.tpl"}
end if

 

My problem is how to tell it that the current page is signup.php. If anyone can provide some help, I'd appreciate it.

[hoogie]

something like this

if ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] != "signup.php") {
include('login_leftside.tpl');
}

 

You might want to test the output of the PHP_SELF first to make sure it's what you want.  It might be something like /path/to/signup.php instead.  To test it you can simply put this somewhere in your signup.php file, and then load it in your web browser and see what it says.

echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

 

 

[NathanDrake]

Thanks for your help, I put the code on signup.php page and it shows

 

/signup.php

 

I tried using the code you provided, and it actually makes a lot of sense and was very helpful. But since I'm be calling it from "rightcolumn.tpl", the PHP code didn't work. I tried the following but it still didn't work, it still displayed the login box regardless of what page I was in.

 

{if $smarty.server.php_self != 'signup.php'}
            {include file="login_rightside.tpl"}   
            {else}
             Testing code
            {/if}

 

What's interesting is that I then tried:

{if $smarty.server.php_self == 'signup.php'}
                 {include file="login_leftside.tpl"}        	
   {else}
                    Testing code
           {/if}

 

And it actually displayed the text "Testing code" on the right column, but it displayed that on every page (index.php, search.php etc), so I have no idea why that's happening...

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If the value of $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] was /signup.php, you would need to test for '/signup.php'. If the actual path can be different, you might want to consider just using the filename portion of the value. See the basename function.

[hoogie]

Yeah, looks like you need the slash in there.  Try this:

 

if ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] != "/signup.php") {
include('login_leftside.tpl');
}

[NathanDrake]

Thanks guy, the problem is solved.