learningcurve Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I have a page that is accessed with this URL: http://celt.muohio.edu/lillycon/oldpresenters.php?year=2010 (year could equal any of course) and it lists the presenters based on the year variable. That is working fine. I also want it to load the style.css, the header and the footer based on the year chosen. That is not working. Here is the code I currently have. I didn't write the original code. I have tried TEMPLATEDIR and TEMPLATEURL but feel like I am missing something obvious. I am still learning PHP so I am definitely slow on the problem solving end. <?php require 'main_include.php'; $year = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['year']); $TEMPLATEDIR = "http://www.units.muohio.edu/lillycon/old/$year"; ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Lilly Conference</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="http://celt.muohio.edu/favicon.png" rel="shortcut icon"> <style type="text/css"> @import url("style.css"); </style> </head> <body> <?php $type = "featured"; $includeFile = file_get_contents("lillyheader.php"); echo $includeFile; // Builds a list of all presenters and their sessions; ECHOs each individual entry for faster to-browser dumping in these long lists. echo "<h1>Lilly $useyear Presenters and Topics</h1>"; $bigList = presentersForYear($year,$type); if (count($bigList)>0) { foreach ($bigList as $value) { echo general($value,$year); } } else { echo "<h4>No $type sessions have been confirmed yet, but please check back soon.</h4>"; } if (isset($_GET['presenter'])) { echo longbio($_GET['presenter'],$useyear); } else if (isset($_GET['session'])) { echo sessAbstract($_GET['session'],$useyear); } else if (isset($_GET['type'])) { echo general_lister($_GET['type'],$useyear); } else { echo general_lister('featured',$year); } $includeFile = file_get_contents("lillyfooter.php"); echo $includeFile; ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/268224-url-variable-to-set-stylecss-and-template-directory/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 You define $TEMPLATEDIR but then you never use it? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/268224-url-variable-to-set-stylecss-and-template-directory/#findComment-1376765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian F. Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 This is also wrong: $year = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['year']); You do not use the year variable in an SQL query, so why would you add escaping for it as if you were? What you want to do here, is input validation, not escaping. Which means you want to verify that the value of said variable ($_GET['year']) is indeed a 4-digit number which relates to a valid year. If not, show an error and/or pick the default (current) year. I recommend doing both, so that the user knows that there's something wrong, and why. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/268224-url-variable-to-set-stylecss-and-template-directory/#findComment-1376926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
learningcurve Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 Thanks for the great feedback. I learn so much everytime I post here. I will work on my code some more. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/268224-url-variable-to-set-stylecss-and-template-directory/#findComment-1377033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian F. Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 You're welcome, glad we could help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/268224-url-variable-to-set-stylecss-and-template-directory/#findComment-1377110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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