Im a noob but need help with PHP
hi i am looking to find out how to do this with my website anyone any ideas it would be great.
http://www.domain.what/index.php?page=somthing
how do i do this please. its looks good and profesional.
thanks guys
Anub1s
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 00:08 — 5th July 2008.
He has: 1,502 posts
Joined: Sep 2006
Welcome to the forums, Anub1s! Hope you come back and visit often.
To answer your question, something like this in your index.php would do the trick:
<?php
switch ($_GET['page'])
{
case 'something':
include('something.php');
break;
case 'another_page':
include('another_page.php');
break;
default:
include('404.php');
}
?>
Using the switch statement, the appropriate page can be loaded based on what is passed to the $_GET['page'] variable. The default section should load a 404 page because that means that a page was requested that didn't meet any of the previous conditions.
I am curious as to why this looks more professional. Pages with query strings are not easily crawled by search engines, and may give your site a lower ranking. Notice that this site does not make use of them. There are other ways to use dynamic URLs without the use of query strings. Apache's mod_rewrite is one of them.
Greg K posted this at 03:26 — 5th July 2008.
He has: 2,145 posts
Joined: Nov 2003
If you have a lot of pages, it is better to use a database for the lookup, as then you can also set up other features such as pages that require a login, etc.
Although you may be tempted to directly call from the $_GET variable (ie. include ($_GET['page']); but DO NOT DO IT! Never directly call an include (or exec, eval, SQL statements) with unprocessed variables especially from the query string, the easiest way for a visitor to put something other than you planned on.
I agree it is better to look into the mod_rewrite to make the url look more professional.
-Greg
decibel.places posted this at 15:43 — 5th July 2008.
He has: 1,494 posts
Joined: Jun 2008
some PHP tutorials/references:
tizag.com
w3schools
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