Sorry for double post. Well, All works fine apart from this www.cell.trap17.com/trick-tips.php The links on the left of the page work fine and do as described by no9t9, but how do I get rid of the weird looking stuff? Help?

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your url does not have the ?load=whatever.html part. This means that the include($load); command is loading nothing which will give you an error. You need to load something.

change the line <?php include($load); ?> to
<?php if ($load!="") include($load); ?>

this new line will basically only load content IF you have specified it in the URL. If there is no ?load=whatever.html, you will simply get a nothing in the content area.

if you want you can add HTML code there instead of leaving it blank.

<?php if($load!="") include($load);
else { ?>
<YOUR OWN HTML CODE>
<?php } ?>

With the above code, if $load is not specified in the URL, it will display <YOUR OWN HTML CODE>

adding one more thing,
<?php if($load!="" && file_exists($load)) include($load);
else { ?>
<YOUR OWN HTML CODE>
<?php } ?>

this checks that $load is specified in the URL and also checks to see if what you specified exists. If not, it displays <YOUR OWN HTML CODE>

 

 

 

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Thanks, I'll use the first one though, the others all look a bit complicated. Thanks again for your help.

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Try to use this code I've made some months ago:



Put this code where you want the "iframe", and the main page will be called main.html. Hope it helped you

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yes hacking is an issue and I also have used code to check for slashes, etc.

I made a webpage using similar method. BAsically one template file which loads content a conent file. I find that this is not the best way to layout a site. I find it is better to include the layout from a file rather than the content.

basically like this

include banner.html;
include navigation.html;
<content code here>
include footer.html;

I think this method is actually better because each page is easier to customize.

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Yes, I make my pages just like you.
<?
include("top.html");
include("content.html");
include("bottom.html");
?>

I don't know what would I do without php... When the site is updated, I would have to change every page, everything, many times.... :T

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yup, because of PHP it is so easy to change layouts. I can just make changes in one place and my whole site is updated. It is very convenient. I used to use PERL but I find PHP is easier to program cause it is so similar to C. I also make my own image galleries in PHP. Like 10 or so lines of code will be able to do UNLIMITED image galleries. It is amazing.

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Well, I don't really know anything about php, and I can't get it to work

Here's the code I tried

Well, easy, easy code, but I know I have forgot something. what?
In the same folder, I have "contentpage.html". Trying to load index.php?load=contentpage.html don't work.
Hehe as I said, I don't know anything about php, just trying it now

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but for me, the best way to go is to use a template system so that html tags are seperated from your php codes.

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the code looks right to me. what is your website and what is the problem? any error messages? is your file named index.php? are there other index files in the same directory? delete index.htm or index.html because they will get loaded before index.php (or you can rename them). Post your site so it will be easier to diagnose the problem.

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