heartsaffection — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:46:42 +0000

Hiya,

I have just answered a question very similar to this in the thread 'Ready to move from html - php site...how?'. Please take a look at that for a VERY simple explanation.

Thanks,

Andy - http://www.heartsaffection.com

naoshad — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:04:58 +0000

thank you all.

Assassin — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:17:35 +0000

This might help you out. This is the source code of the homepage of my website. You can see it in action at http://assassin.cjb.cc

Assassin Band
<?PHP
/* here I'm simply including a CSS file. it's got nothing to do with your question */
include("http://assassin.cjb.cc/assassin.css");

/* Here's where it starts to get interesting. This if then thing tells my page that if there is nothing in the "Query string" which is the ?u=10145 in your question that my variable $Pagename should be set to home */
if($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']==NULL){
$Pagename=home;
}
// This gets the query string if there is one
else{
/* My URL always comes as http://assassin.cjb.cc?$Pagename=whatever. All I want is the whatever, so first I make an array that contains 2 pieces: 1)http://assassin.cjb.cc?$Pagename= and 2) whatever */
$Query = explode("=", $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);
// this sets my variable $Pagename to the whatever that I got before
$Pagename=$Query[1];
} ?>

<?PHP if($Pagename=="home"){ print("
"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>

Home

<?PHP if($Pagename=="bios"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Bios

<?PHP if($Pagename=="book"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Book Us

<?PHP if($Pagename=="originals"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Original
Songs

<?PHP if($Pagename=="covers"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Song Arsenal

<?PHP if($Pagename=="past"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Past Shows

<?PHP if($Pagename=="shows"){ print("

"); } else{ print("
"); } ?>Future Shows

<?PHP
/* This sets my page. all of the code above just sets my tabs and my header. this is where the real action is. I have all of my pages set up so that they can be linked to in this matter. */
include("http://www.cjb.cc/members/assassin/" . $Pagename . ".html"); ?>

I really hope this helped. The code can be a little overwhelming at first, but I think you should be able to get it.

pitbull82 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:03:49 +0000

Well, there's nothing to comment in here. Only switch instruction, $_GET - that's the array which store your variables given via GET method ( example.php?where=first - this is GET method - where will be stored in $_GET['where']), isset - checks if variable exists or not.

That's all. If u don't understand it - sorry, start learning PHP...

naoshad — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:58:45 +0000

thanks a lot for your reply.

naoshad — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:57:31 +0000

it will be very helpful if you ilaborate the code. i mean if you make comments in every line where necessary.

Naoshad

pitbull82 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:27:08 +0000

It's a variable and its value which helps you to manage your site.

Simple example. Save it as example.php:

<?php
<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>
   
   <!--
   Here we have content of the site
   -->
   
   if (isset($_GET['where']))
           $where=$_GET['where'];
   else
          $where='';
   switch ($where)
   {
           case 'first':
                   echo \"Here's the content of the first article. (You could use include funcion here)\";
                   break;
           case 'second':
                   echo \"Here's the content of the second article. (You could use include funcion here)\";
                   break;                
           case 'third':
                   echo \"Here's the content of the third article. (You could use include funcion here)\";
                   break;                                
           default:
                   echo \"Here's the main page (or there was bad value of where). (You could use include funcion here)\";
   }
   
   
   
   <ul>
   <li>
           <a href=\"example.php?where=first\">First link</a>
   </li>
   <li>
           <a href=\"example.php?where=second\">Second link</a>
   </li>
   <li>
           <a href=\"example.php?where=third\">Third link</a>
   </li>
  </ul>
   </body>
    </html>
?>

Hope that's useful for you