Hi. I have been wondering this for a while now, and I want to use it... I see on some sites how a link will go to id=main/linkus ... I know it's a PHP include, but how do I insert it just like that into one of my pages? I use PHP includes just so that all my navigation categories show, but how do I do this for every page?

Please refer to this thread:

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/php-fo...php-pages.html

If that doesn't answer your question, please feel free to post here or there!

I read it, but I'm confused lol I'm a noobie with PHP, let alone coding. I need like step-by-step instructions on how to do this lol Please help if able

hi Flame,

if I'm right you're looking for something like this:

<a href="<?php print $PHP_SELF.'id=linkurl1'; ?>" >link1</a>
<a href="<?php print $PHP_SELF.'id=linkurl2'; ?>" >link2</a>
<a href="<?php print $PHP_SELF.'id=linkurl3'; ?>" >link3</a>

<?php
if($_GET['id']){  // id is not emtpy
   
    @include("./".$_GET['id']); // when u use this the url will be searched on
                                        // your server (only), with this u can prevent 
                                        // that somebody try to start foreign urls
 

?>

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akratellio

When it comes down to this, there are a lot of different ways of doing it, and its all in a users preference. Some may be better, some may be worse, but here's how I do it:

This is the code for your links:

<a href="index.php?ID=NAME1">Link for Name1.php</a>
<a href="index.php?ID=NAME2">Link for Name2.php</a>

Obviously, you can change "ID" to whatever you want (keeping in mind it will need to be changed in the below code), and NAME1 should be the filename of the page you want, not including the extension. (about.php would be "about").

Here's the PHP code to display the content:

PHP Code:

    <?php
    if(isset($id)){              // Obviously, if you used something instead of "id"
    include("$id.php");       // up above, you'd change the "id" here to the same thing.
    }
    else{
    include("home.php");   // This is the page to include if no links have been selected.
    }
    ?>

I hope you understand my method. You don't need to use it, but hopefully it is clear, and not confusing. This is the way I was taught, and I have always used it.

Thanks for the replies guys! I'll give this a shot today or tomorrow at the latest, and get back to you.