php script

right.......prob is below

i'm trying to set up a archive page for my site. i have loads of plain html pages i.e. 12august04.html but i want to create a system using php where i can use this instead to call the script - archive.php?id=6 instead of having loads of php pages.

The only thing is i dont want to use MySQL to call this - i just want to link loads of XHTML transitional web pages with a .php extension together by using the archive.php?id=6 call method to show each page as the id number changes.
How do I do this, and can someone give me a PHP script to do this without usng MySQL?

Regards
-weazel

A quick and easy solution:


<?
if($_REQUEST["id"]!="") {
$page = "pageName{$id}.html";
include($page);
}
?>

ok thanks but where "pageName{$id}.html" is, do I create put in "12August{$1}.html t show the id value?

Not sure what you are trying to say. My guess is you wanna know how to access the filename. Personally I would do it this way:

yyyymmdd.html

so page id "20041008" would bring up 20041008.html which would be the file representing October 8th 2004.

It'd be better to make it:


$id = ($_REQUEST["id"] != "") ? (1) : ($_REQUEST["id"];
$page = "pagename_" . $id . ".php";
include ($page);


That'll check to see if $_REQUEST["id"] is set to "", and if it is it'll make it one, if not it retains the value. Then for the page names, it should be pagename_1.php (or whatever number it is).

thanks but all i get is two of my web pages which I have called in the script being displayed on the page.
What i want is :
/archive.php?id=1 to show /20040901.php
/archive.php?id=2 to show /20040902.php

-weazel

Since you don't want to use MySQL you can create an array with the various filenames.


<?
$id = $_REQUEST["id"];

$arrFile[1] = "20040901.php";
$arrFile[2] = "20040902.php";
$arrFile[3] = "20040903.php"; //etc...

if($id!="") {
$page = $arrFile[$id]
} else {
$page = $arrFile[1];
}

include($page);
?>

okay thanks for the help.

it works but I have 2 pages one after each other, but the /archive.php?id=1 bit does work
any ideas?

So you have 2 pages that you want to include on the same page?

ie you want to include 20040902.html AND 20040903.html on the same page?

if so...just alter the code this way:

<?
$id = $_REQUEST["id"];

$arrFile[1] = "20040901.php";
$arrFile[2] = "20040902.php";
$arrFile[3] = "20040903.php"; //etc...

if($id!="") {
$page = $arrFile[$id]
} else {
$page = $arrFile[1];
}

include($page);

//If you include 20040902.php ALSO include 20040903.php
if($id=="2") {
include({$arrFile[($id+1)]});
}
?>

no what i want is 20040909.html one one page as /archive.php?id=1 and 20040910.html as /archive.php?id=2.

what i have at the moment is 20040909.html AND 20040910.html underneath the 20040909.html page which is being represented as /archive.php?id=1.

I only want 20040909.html to be displayed as /archive.php?id=1 and 20040910.html to be displayed as /archive.php?id=2.

Dude, then look at the original code I gave you.

Code for archive.php:

<?
$id = $_REQUEST["id"]; //$id will equal whatever you pass from the Query String

$arrFile[1] = "20040909.php";
$arrFile[2] = "20040910.php";
$arrFile[3] = "20040911.php"; //etc...

if($id!="") {
$page = $arrFile[$id]
} else {
$page = $arrFile[1];
}

include($page);
?>


This will do EXACTLY what you just said you wanted. If you want to access 20040910.html then visit: archive.php?id=2

thanks man but i've got a parse error on the code that you gave me:

I have uploaded the array code you gave me to my web server:

http://www.jamierees.co.uk/phparchive.php?id=3
Please take a look and tell me what you think

It's missing a semi-colon. I fixed it in the code below

<?
$id = $_REQUEST["id"]; //$id will equal whatever you pass from the Query String

$arrFile[1] = "20040909.php";
$arrFile[2] = "20040910.php";
$arrFile[3] = "20040911.php"; //etc...

if($id!="") {
$page = $arrFile[$id]; //<--this was the line missing the semi-colon
} else {
$page = $arrFile[1];
}

include($page);
?>

<?
$id = $_REQUEST["id"]; //$id will equal whatever you pass from the Query String

$arrFile[1] = "20040909.php";
$arrFile[2] = "20040910.php";
$arrFile[3] = "20040911.php"; //etc...

if($id!="") {
$page = $arrFile[$id];
} else {
$page = $arrFile[1];
}

include($page);
?>


Try that code... was missing the closing ";" on one of the lines. ;)

okay thanks but i now have the same page displayed twice (one underneath the other)
I also have a "Warning: main(): stream does not support seeking in /home/www/jamieree/work.php on line 13" error on the page.
http://www.jamierees.co.uk/work.php?id=3

any ideas?

-Jamie

dam sorry its working now guys, cheers for the help - i was looking at the wrong page with the wrong script