[SOLVED] help with url?venue=location, assigning venue value to a variable.

[WiFiTech]

Thanks for taking a few moments to look at this post.

 

I have learned a lot in a week, and I think I figured out the best way to do something, however, I am not getting my syntax even close to correct.

If someone you could help me with the basic concept or point me in the right direction I would be grateful.

 

I am using the following for a url syntax:

https://www.mydomain.com/index.php?venue=location

examples:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?venue=marina

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?venue=hotel

 

Question #1:

  How do I GET the venue value from the URL?

Question #2

  How do I assign it to a variable?

Question #3

  How do I get the correct php include to show based on the variable with the Venue Value?

 

<?php 
if ($_GET['venue'] == "marina")
{ $_welcomeinclude = "marina.php"; ?> }
elseif ($_GET['venue'] == "hotel")
{ $_welcomeinclude = "hotel.php"; ?> }
else { $_welcomeinclude = "welcome.php"; ?> }
include \"$_include\";
?>

 

also, I am not getting this to work when the include file is in another directory.

And I am certain that I would be better off assigning the venue value to a variable for use in other instances.

 

 

[rarebit]

$v = "default_value";
if(isset($_GET['venue']))
{
   $v = $_GET['venue'];
   echo $v;
}

[pocobueno1388]

Try this out

 

<?php

if (isset($_GET['venue'])){
   $welcominclude = $_GET['venue'];
} else {
   $welcomeinclude = 'welcome';
}

include 'path/'.$welcomeinclude;

?>

[WiFiTech]

First, thank you rarebit and pocobueano1388.

Here is what I took from your input...

 

assume https://www.mydomain.com/index.php?location=marina

assume include pages are in https://www.mydomain.com/location/ directory.

 

<?php
$location = "welcome";
if(isset($_GET['venue']))
{
   $location = $_GET['venue'];
   echo $location;
}
?>

 

This should then set the variable $location to a default of welcome.php unless the $_GET can pull a value from the url.

In this case venue value is marina and it will assign it to the variable $location, which will then print to screen

 

    marina

 

 

<?php
if (isset($_GET['venue'])){
   $location = $_GET['venue'];
} else {
   $location = 'welcome';
}
include 'location/'.$location.php;

?>

 

This should pull the value of venue marina, it will then assign the variable $location the value of marina.

however this will fail to pull the include of marina.php as I have the syntax wrong.

I need a hand with the syntax on building the file name $location.php please.

[pocobueno1388]

You were close xP

 

<?php
if (isset($_GET['venue'])){
   $location = $_GET['venue'];
} else {
   $location = 'welcome';
}
include 'location/'.$location.'.php';

?>

[WiFiTech]

Testing, Testing and dang I am getting close though... Thanks pocobueno1388

 

here is the test url for the page...

https://online.impulseconnect.com/learnphp/index.php

obviously you place whatever ?venue=blahblah that you want to test with in this case welcome and marina are being used.

welcome is a picture of a hummingbird and marina is a picture of a blob.

here is the code for the script we are working with.

<?php
if (isset($_GET['venue'])){
   $location = $_GET['venue'];
} else {
   $location = 'welcome';
}
include 'https://online.impulseconnect.com/learnphp/'.$location.'.php';
?>

 

I am recieving the warning and it seems I have to get the URL path corrected from the PHP directory back to the website directory area.

 

Warning: main() [function.main]: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:140770FC:SSL routines:func(119):reason(252) in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main() [function.main]: php_stream_sock_ssl_activate_with_method: SSL handshake/connection failed in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main(https://online.impulseconnect.com/learnphp/welcome.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Unable to activate SSL mode in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main() [function.main]: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:140770FC:SSL routines:func(119):reason(252) in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main() [function.main]: php_stream_sock_ssl_activate_with_method: SSL handshake/connection failed in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main(https://online.impulseconnect.com/learnphp/welcome.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Unable to activate SSL mode in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'https://online.impulseconnect.com/learnphp/welcome.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/jkc1211/public_html/learnphp/index.php on line 63

 

any ideas?

[BlueSkyIS]

you can include a file, but you can't include a URL.

 

if you need to include the local file /learnphp/'.$location.'.php' i'd use this:

 

include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/learnphp/$location.php");

[WiFiTech]

Thank you to effigy, pocobueno1388 and BlueSkyIS

 

Here is the final code that I can start to expand my knowledge with:

<?php
if (isset($_GET['venue'])){
   $location = $_GET['venue'];
} else {
   $location = 'welcome';
}
include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/learnphp/$location.php");
?>

I just need to get the rest of the else statements and then learn how to move backwards in the directories, to pull existing content, then I should be able to clean it all up...

Thanks so much everyone, any more issues or questions will be in a new thread pertaining to that subject.