PHP templating assistance?

[DenHepLei]

Hi,

 

I was following along in the tutorial "Introduction to PHP templating" http://phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-PHP-templating.html and some have questions.

 

Everything works as it should in the example as long as the files to be included are located in the directory root, however I would like to keep my include files in a subdirectory called "includes" and need to know how the example needs to be modified to accomplish this?

 

I posted earlier in this forum with a simular questions but may not have been clear in what I am trying to accomplish, I apologize for the semi-duplicate post.

 

Thanks for the assistance.

[kratsg]

From

 

include_once("main.php");

 

To

 

$folder = "includes/";
include_once($folder."main.php");

 

Just add the folder onto the front of the file name and use the url to get what page to access, etc... I just used main.php as an example since they did use that.

[DenHepLei]

Hi,

 

Humm.. I must be doing something wrong, it's still not working? I have made some changes to the example, I am using the extension .inc rather than .php for the files containing the content I want displayed and I have also changed the default page from main.php to index.php, here is the code I am tyring to get working, I have a simple menu and what I want to see happen is that when you click a letter such as "A" for example the content from the file includes/a.inc is displayed, when letter "M" is clicked the content from includes/m.inc is displayed and so on...

 

<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=a>A</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=c>C</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=d>D</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=e>E</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=f>F</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=g>G</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=m>M</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=n>N</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=p>P</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=s>S</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=t>T</a>"; echo "  ::  " ?>
<?php echo "<a href=". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?page=y>Y</a>"; ?>

<!-- Begin Dynamic Content -->

<?php
  // create an array of allowed pages
  $allowedPages = array('a', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'm', 'n', 'p', 's', 't', 'y');
  
  // check if the page variable is set and check if it is the array of allowed pages
  if(isset($_GET['page']) && in_array($_GET['page'], $allowedPages))
    {
    // first check that the file exists
    if(file_exists($_GET['page'].'.inc'))
        {
        //  If all is well, we include the file
        include_once($_GET['page'].'.inc');
        }
    else
        {
        // A little error message if the file does not exist
        echo 'No such file exists';
        }

    }
  // if somebody typed in an incorrect url
  else
    {
    // if things are not as they should be, we included the default page
    if(file_exists('index.inc'))
        {
        // include the default page 
      $folder = 'includes/';
      include_once($folder.'index.inc');
        }
    else
        {
        // if the default page is missing, we have a problem and it needs to be fixed.
        echo 'index.inc is missing. Please fix me.';
        }
    }

?>

<!-- End Dynamic Content -->

Thanks in advance

[kratsg]

Didn't add the includes folder here (so do it):

 

      $folder = 'includes/';
  // check if the page variable is set and check if it is the array of allowed pages
  if(isset($_GET['page']) && in_array($_GET['page'], $allowedPages))
    {
    // first check that the file exists
    if(file_exists($folder.$_GET['page'].'.inc'))
        {
        //  If all is well, we include the file
        include_once($folder.$_GET['page'].'.inc');
        }
    else
        {
        // A little error message if the file does not exist
        echo 'No such file exists';
        }

    }
  // if somebody typed in an incorrect url
  else
    {
    // if things are not as they should be, we included the default page
    if(file_exists($folder.'index.inc'))
        {
        // include the default page 

      include_once($folder.'index.inc');
        }
    else
        {
        // if the default page is missing, we have a problem and it needs to be fixed.
        echo 'index.inc is missing. Please fix me.';
        }
    }