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Reado

Mar 19 2005, 02:42 PM

I've already read the tutorial on the PHP site but it only tells me half of what I want to know.

I'm trying to use the following address navigation:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?cat=1&subcat=2

I can get the first part (before the &) to work, but it's the part after that I don't know the code for.

Can anyone help?

I'm using the following code already:

CODE

<?php
switch ($_GET['cat']) {
case "1": $inc = './page1.php';
break;
default: $inc = './home.php';
break;
}
include ($inc);
?>

Thanks.

Rikki

Mar 19 2005, 02:50 PM

It's the same, you just use $_GET['subcat']; instead.

Reado

Mar 19 2005, 02:55 PM

Could you give me an example please as I don't know where to put it.

Mar 19 2005, 03:00 PM

You could have something in [for instance, page1.php]:

CODE

switch($_GET['subcat'])
{
case 'hello':
echo "hello";
break;
}

Reado

Mar 19 2005, 03:08 PM

This will not work with template style navigation, and to be honest, I've just tried it and it doesn't!

If I have:
http://mydomain.com/index.php?cat=1&subcat=2
http://mydomain.com/news.php?cat=1&subcat=2
http://mydomain.com/contact.php?cat=1&subcat=2

This won't work as all 3 pages are linked into the same template.

Can I not have a 'case' under another 'case'? Such as:
case "1": $inc = './home/page1.php';
case "2": $inc = './home/page1_2.php';

Buztin

Mar 19 2005, 04:15 PM

why use a switch ... just use this...

CODE

$page_array = array();

$page_array["c1"] = "page1.php";
$page_array["c1s1"] = "page1_1.php";
$page_array["c1s2"] = "page1_2.php";
$page_array["c1s3"] = "page1_3.php";

$page_array["c2"] = "page2.php";
$page_array["c2s1"] = "page2_1.php";
$page_array["c2s2"] = "page2_2.php";
$page_array["c2s3"] = "page2_3.php";

if (isset($_GET['subcat']) and $_GET['subcat'] != "")
{
$inc = './home/' . $page_array['c' . $_GET['cat'] . 's' . $_GET['subcat']];
}
else
{
$inc = './home/' . $page_array['c'.$_GET['cat']];
}

include ($inc);

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