Custom URL's

[tacmig99]

I'm looking for a way to get all my pages to use index.php in the URL.

Something like:
http://www.example.com/index.php
Should become:
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=home

I found this code

<?php
if ($_GET['page'] == 'home') {
?>
(CONTENT)
<?php
}
?>

But the link seems to take me to index.php even if I make up a random name like index.php?page=fjsadblfj or index.php?sdjfgbkjsdbl

Any help is appreciated.

[thetestingsite]

You would want to place the code you posted above in the index.php page. After which, you would want to edit it for your pages (using if-elseif conditionals).

Example (index.php):

<?php 
$default_page = "default.php"; //the default page if the page variable is not set

//start the if-then conditionals

 if ($_GET['page'] == "home") {
   include('home.php');
 }

 elseif ($_GET['page'] == "testing") {
   include('testing.php');
 }

 else {
   include($default_page);
 }
?>

Hope this helps.

[tacmig99]

Thanks, just so I'm clear though, my index.php has nothing except the code you provided right?
Edit: hmm, can't seem to get this to work

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $end in http://www.example.com/index.php on line 16

Edit2: I found a code that I got to work.

<?php
            
if(!isset($_GET['page'])){

   $page = "home";

} else {

   $page = $_GET['page'];

}
            
$path = $page.".php";

if (file_exists($path)){
      
   include($path);

} else {
  
   echo "Sorry, the page doesn't exist...";

}

?>

Thanks for replying anyways, I appreciate the help

[mburt]

I use a similar system on my site, in fact...

[Twey]

I'm looking for a way to get all my pages to use index.php in the URL.

Something like:
http://www.example.com/index.php
Should become:
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=home

Be aware that this is poor style... once you've done this, use mod_rewrite or something to change the URLs so that /index.php?page=home becomes /home or perhaps /pages/home. Also, avoid the temptation to bung everything into one huge file. Make use of includes.

I really need to get .htaccess working on my site so I can do this. I think it's a config problem.

[mburt]

I recently found out that you can't edit the htaccess file with my hosting service . But ah, well. I'll live.