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theholygod
24 Mar, 2008 - 12:16 PM
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Hi

I've used inline frames a lot before, but they have loads of downsides. I'm looking to achieve the same effect using PHP.

I pretty much want my website set up so there is only one page that has the site layout, pages of information would then be pasted into that layout when hyperlinks are clicked. I imagine i would go about having my web pages created in such a way that they call upon the html of the layout page and then places the current information into a specific portion of that web page.

Example:
www.mywebsite.com = www.mywebsite.com/layout.html + www.mywebsite.com/index.php

Can anyone give me pointers of where to start with this?
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24 Mar, 2008 - 12:26 PM
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In order to do this, the easiest way would be use the $_GET superglobal array. Basically at the end of your www.mywebsite.com URL you would append ?id=something. Then your code would do the following:
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switch($_GET['id']){
case 0:
...
break;
case 1:
...
break;
case ...:
break;
default:
// throw some sort of 404 error because that page is nonexistent
break;
}


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So there would be 1 page that stores every page?
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Take a look at Smarty. www.smarty.net - smarty is a php template system

Also, you could consider a heavier fully fledged CMS's like Joomla (www.joomla.org) or Drupal (www.drupal.org).

Another option is using a php framework which uses a M-V-C architecture. Some common ones are CakePHP, Symfony, Codeigniter, and (if you're up for a challange) Zend Framework.

Smarty might be the best for you. The frameworks take some time to learn - and the big CMS's can be limiting.
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Essentially, yes, that one page would store every other page. But what you could do with the switch statement would be to have
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case 1:
include("page1.php");
break;


So that index.php or whatever doesn't store all of the pages in it, rather it just includes whatever page the user is trying to get at.

An even better way to do it would be:

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include("page{$_GET['id']}.php";


Where the page with an ID of 0 is page0.php.
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Thanks spearfish, that sounds like the ideal solution.

Comrade, i looked at smarty and it seems completely above me, thanks anyway.

Getting late here and I'm tired, so I'll try this stuff out tomorrow morning. Thanks loads guys.
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24 Mar, 2008 - 04:02 PM
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Not a problem. Glad I can help somebody with more than a half dozen posts wink2.gif
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Ok, this is what i have so far:

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    if(isset($_GET['id']))
    {
        include("{$_GET['id']}.php");
    }
    else
    {
        include("main.php");
    }


This is working brilliantly for me. How would i go about checking to see if a page exists?
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Using the file_exists function.

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if(isset($_GET['id')) {
     if (file_exists($_GET['id'])) {
          include("{$_GET['id']}.php");
          }
     }


Sorry if my syntax is off on the file_exists function, I've never used it before.
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That's working really well for me, thanks spearfish. I wish i had known this stuff a few years ago, would have saved me a lot of time.

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if(isset($_GET['id']))
    {
        if (file_exists($_GET['id']))
        {
            include("{$_GET['id']}.php");
        }
        else
        {
            include("custom404.php");
        }
    }    
    else
    {
        include("main.php");
    }        


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26 Mar, 2008 - 05:29 AM
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Don't worry about it - I just remembered what functions are. Doi! I have a 300 line program that probably could be narrowed down to 175 with functions.
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