PHP Forum

**thr4shmetal** · 12-12-2007, 01:30 PM

Hello,
I am taking a college course for php and I'm stuck on an assignment.

I need to write an if/then statement that is declaired by the url in the address bar.

If - url in address bar = www.princetonuniversity.com/index.html
Then - display <html> home page </html>
ELSE
If - url in address bar = www.princetonuniversity.com/about.html
Then - display <html> about us page </html>

Can someone give me an example on how to write this script?

**shivaji** · 12-12-2007, 02:29 PM

First of all, with html extension you cannot simple run php script, use php extension. Second, your question is not logical. If you type www.princetonuniversity.com/index.php in address bar then browser will display your home page. You don't need some php code for doing that. Give us more specific question (for example insert different header, image, etc. independent of page).

Shivaji

**dman_2007** · 01:19 AM

First step, use .htaccess file to redirect all request to a single php script. Next step, Write that php script using the following pre-defined variable

PHP Code:


			
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

you can find explanation of that variable here

**Moxxnixx** · 12-14-2007, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shivaji

First of all, with html extension you cannot simple run php script, use php extension.

Not true.
You can process html pages through the php interpreter if you add the following line to your htaccess...

Quote:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If your server does not support htaccess, then you need to add html to where you declared
the php extension in the server's scripting parameters (assuming you have access to it).

I'm running html pages with php code just fine on my server.

**shivaji** · 12-14-2007, 03:56 PM

He, he, Moxxnixx you didn't read carefuly my post.

Quote:

cannot simple run php script

True!

Quote:

You can process html pages through the php interpreter if you add the following line to your htaccess...

Quote:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If your server does not support htaccess, then you need to add html to where you declared
the php extension in the server's scripting parameters (assuming you have access to it).

This is not simple fo me.

Shivaji