Quick and easy PHP help needed chaps

[Kezzer]

So the main aim for me is to make my website smaller by having minimal amount of pages but including just as much content. Now this is one technique I have seen yet am pondering how to do it properly.

$page = $_GET['page'];
if (($page == "home") or ($page =="")) {
include('news/news.php');
} else if($page == "about") {
include('includes/about.html'); 

Now, i'm planning to use this for the pages which are basically staying static apart from the news page.

http://www.kezzer.co.uk/

There's my website so you can check it out. I've just done a quick design update, the header and nav bar have changed slightly but there's still more work to be done to it.

The pages i'm planning to use the include() function on are every single one apart from articles, tutorials and reviews as these will be produced from the database which will be on a seperate page called article.php.

Now the one question i had was, how the hell does it catch the URL by saying if (($page == "home"). how is "home" defined? Someone told me it does this by default? /me is lost

I can't seem to find anything relating to it at all which is quite confusing.

Help please

[Jonny M]

Wouldn't it just be http://www.kezzer.co.uk/index.php&page=home

?

[Kezzer]

lmao, ah so that's how it works. doh! /me slaps forehead

I didn't quite understand it although i read the tutorial ten times over. I'll get to work on it and see if i can actually get it to work ta for the heads up, i'll tell ya how it goes

[Kezzer]

ok i put the following code in my index page

<?php
$page = $_GET['page'];
if($page == "contact")
{
include('includes/contact.html')
}
?>

And i got a parse error for those lines. I added the contact.html in the includes folder and i changed the URL to index.php&page=contact for the contact link.

What went wrong?

[Kezzer]

argh there's me not error checking forgot the ;

Ok so the page loads but click on the contact link

/me is tired

[Kezzer]

lmao, just ignore me, seriously now, ignore me, delete the thread :X!!!

i figured it out. /me slaps self 100 times

>_<!!!!

[Shorty]

switch ($_GET['page']) {
case 'about':
include('includes/about.html');    
break;
case 'contact':
include('includes/contact.html');
break; 
default:
include('news/news.php');
} 

Using a switch is neater and you can just add more "cases" as you so need, without having to keep doing the old if/elseif/else statements all the time

[estratosphere]

i had been having problems with this for a while too. glad this thread came up

[Kezzer]

/me starts again

lol, ye the switch looks a lot nicer.

[Jonny M]

[SIZE=1]Shorty, having some trouble with this m8:

The code in my index.php reads:

    switch ($_GET['page']) { 
    case 'index': 
    include('index.inc');     
    break; 
    case 'stores': 
    include('stores.inc'); 
    break; 
    default: 
    include('index.inc'); 
    } 

And the URL to the page is http://www.jonny-m.net/dofe

But there's an error coming up (Behind the header), and typing

http://www.jonny-m.net/dofe/index.php?page=stores

Doesn't do anything.

What am I doing wrong? Probably something incredibly stupid.

Thanks

[Jonny M]

Ah, sorted now.

Forgot the

<?php

?>

[Nemeliza]

lol all those little things, you see programming is the route of all evil.

[Shorty]

Ah, sorted now.

Forgot the

<?php

?>

rofl..

[Jonny M]

[Shorty]

Aww mate, I've done worse. Trust me

[Jonny M]

Heheh, I'm sure you have.

What do you use for all this PHP coding anyway? I'm currently using EditPlus, but I thought maybe a better text editor designed to do PHP, which can do things like complete code for me etc would be a better option.