Page 2 - including pages without SSI

here's a quick intro to using include()'s.

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/...01_1/page5.html

that series of articles is a good intro to php in general, too. it's what got me started.

ok that makes since
so if i have 2 link boxes
and lets say i have 1 link in each box
box 1 link to gods page
box 2 link to devshed
how would i do this to have each link open in the main table????

example:

directory listing:
index.php
god.php
other_guy.php
cannon_fodder.php
camper.php

you index.php file contains a list of links:
index.php?person=god
index.php?person=other_guy
index.php?person=cannon_fodder
index.php?person=camper

then, in the middle table you have:

<?
if ( $person ) {
include( $person . ".php" );
} else {
?>
<p>Please pick a person</p>
<?
}
?>

ok but it is my links.php
that will have the links
and i am including that into the index.php

that works. just make sure that the path in your include is from the location of your links.php file and not the location of your index.php file, assuming they're in different directories. if it's the same directory, then it's taken care of.

ok well i typed this
into my middle table
"<?include();?>"
in my new.php
and then i included my links.php in a box on the left
"<a href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?person=SRT.God">SRT.God</a> "
but i get a parse error on my new.php on line 90
line 90=<?include();?>
what can i do to fix?
or what am i doing wrong???

instead of <?include();?> you need <?include( $person . ".php" );?>

play with the format of the include so that the value you put in $person is the location of the file you want to include.

how can i change that
what if i want to generalise it
so i can just copy/paste everywhers
like instead of $person type $page or $link???
now how would my URL tags look like???
or do i keep them the same?

hmm i change the include to

"<?include( $link . ".php" );?> "
from
"<?include( $person . ".php" );?> "

and my link says this
"<a href="<?=$PHP_SELF?>?link=SRT.God">SRT.God</a>"
but i am still getting this parse error on line 90
which is the "<?include( $person . ".php" );?> "

try:

<?include ( $HTTP_GET_VARS["person"] . ".php" ) ?>

www.decodethis.com/new.php
is the file i am going to make my index.php
when i'm done
and www.decodethis.com/includes/ is the dir where my links.php is
maybe you can tell what i'm doing wrong

you pass variables through you link with http://some_page.html?variable_name...ariable_value_3

then you access those values in your php script as $variable_name_1, $variable_name_2, etc...

or, since it looks like register_globals might be disabled, you get at the variables through the $HTTP_GET_VARS[] array. so: $HTTP_GET_VARS["variable_name_1"], etc.

you can put anything you want in your query string, although there is a total limit to the length of the url (it's pretty big). just be sure that whatever you put in there is url encoded (+ instead of a space, stuff like that). you can use the urlencode() function to encode a string into a url, and urlunencode() to get it back.

you just completly lost me
well my link opens a new window now
but it still gives me an error now

can you put your php file up as a text file? that way i could look at your code.

i cant figure out how to get my links to open properly
since they are in a different dir
i tried
/srt/god.html
but that is still giving me the error