2 Pages Into One how?

[demonlord 0]

Hello, now this may be a stupid question but i'm very new to php so i need some help. what i'm wanting to do is combine 2 pages in to one. like for example the install.php for invisionpower board it starts with one page and you click continue and it gives you a whole new page but if you look at the url you are still using the install.php file but it has somethinglike "?a=2" at the end. how can i do this. Thanks

[sonesay 7]

You can control what gets processed in index.php by taking the tagged get variables at the end of the URL and using it in your code.For example if you have a file called index.php

<?php$do = $_GET['do'];if($do == 'option1'){ // do what ever you need to be done here}else if($do == 'option2'){  // do what ever you need to be done here}?>?>

so now you can make links that go to index.php and add controls to it by adding to the end of the URLi.e index.php?do=dothis

Edited February 24, 2008 by sonesay (see edit history)

[demonlord 0]

never mind i see you edited you post and what you put in had the answer to what i was going to ask.Thanks for posting this

Edited February 24, 2008 by demonlord (see edit history)

[kobra500 1]

Hmm im trying to learn php but its the one language I cant get my head round!

[demonlord 0]

yeah i know i've been trying to learn it for about a month now with no progress. it's hard

[sonesay 7]

I was in your shoes a few years ago, I ended up buying a book and went through the tutorials in them. It helped but then I was way to busy and never even did any PHP for a year or 2 and then I never progressed. The only advice I can give you is keep doing it. Thats how I improved, You know the old saying hard work really pays off and it does. You may not pick it up in a few days/weeks/months but you will pick it up eventually. And also if your stumped you can always post here.Good luck.

[demonlord 0]

after i started this topic i actuly went out and got some books on php and i'm going to sit down and go through them and make a whole lot of notes so hopefuly that will help.and thanks again for the help

[jlhaslip 4]

Here is a link to a Tutorial I wrote some time ago. Back when I was just starting out learning some php. I would do things a little differently now, but it might assist you with the task you face.
Any questions, just post them to that thread, please.

http://forums.xisto.com/topic/35271-templating-system-using-php-includes-building-a-dynamic-site-using-includes-and-flat-files/

[demonlord 0]

sonesay i have one more question about the scriptwhere do i put the code that i want to show up if $do is Null for example if i name the script act.php where would i put the code that they would see if they went to act.php instead of act.php?z=whatever.Thanks

[sonesay 7]

sonesay i have one more question about the script
where do i put the code that i want to show up if $do is Null for example if i name the script act.php where would i put the code that they would see if they went to act.php instead of act.php?z=whatever.

Thanks

{
// do what ever you need to be done here
}
else if($do == 'option2')
{
// do what ever you need to be done here
}
else
{
// the previous 2 checks didn't match do this section of code
}
linenums:0'>if($do == 'option1'){// do what ever you need to be done here}else if($do == 'option2'){// do what ever you need to be done here}else{// the previous 2 checks didn't match do this section of code}
You can add more else if checks if needed but its too hard to cover all possibilities so if none match you can add a final statement of else at the bottom and it will execute if none of the above checks are true.

[demonlord 0]

thanks sonesay, one more question does the else have to be the very last one or can i put it at the begining of the script? and thanks again for the help