Help with PHP and displaying pages

[Far]

I've got a lot of tutorials i want to put on to a website, each on a different page but using the same php file.

for example i want my address to be games\tutorials.php?id=minecraft or games\tutorials.php?id=Skyrim.

The tutorials all have different layout formats (different amount of headings ect)

The tutorials will be written by myself, but id rather have a single page than 1000 pages for the webpages. (makes it very hard to edit)

Does anyone know the best possible way i can easily implement this design? I thought about adding the contents and headings in to an sql table, but i didn't think bulk text worked that well in table form.

I can use php/html/css/sql.

 

[Tai]

http://tinyurl.com/7xt4vaf


/thisisnotspam

 

[Far]

why are you linking me to the console gaming section :S

 

[Tai]

lol, it was a subtle/bad attempt at saying "post your guides here"

/ilied

 

[JealY]

Right, I hope this doesn't need much explaining because... I don't want to! It's pretty self explanatory really.

You would put this where you want the page to be;

<?php
switch ($HTTP_GET_VARS[id]) {
default:
include "default.php";
break;

case 'minecraft':
include 'minecraft.php';
break;
}
?>

For every page to be "included" you just add a

case 'xyz':
include 'xyz.php';
break;

Then you just use website.php?id=minecraft or whatever.

 

[Far]

ah i get it. yeah thats kinda what i was thinking, but my thought was to have them as .txt files, i can actually see having them as php makes it more logical.

so basically if the included file is named pron.php, i'd just have website.php?id=pron and it would include that?

@Thai, after you explained the joke i got its relevancy, it was kinda lols.

EDIT:

changed the code to this and works perfectly so far.

<?php

$adr = $_GET["id"];
$var = '.php';

include "$adr$var";
break;


?>

thanks again Now i just need to think of a way to make it more complex.

I want it to ideally search through folders to find the include.

so if i type website.php?id=mir

it would look in games/mmo/ to find the mir.php file

but if i type website.php?id=pron

it would look in pron/sexytime/ to find pron.php file

Want to do this so i can organise the tutorials in to sections and not just have 1000's in a single folder.
any ideas?

 

[JealY]

Glad you figured it.

Not sure how to include heirarchys really unless you had some sort of database or some querys to find where the file is.

 

[Far]

got that sorted my next step is to split up the directory, so i can write the address in the header.

<?php
//Searches all forward directories, gets the path and file name, then includes it if it matches ?id=

filesInDir('includes/tutorials/');

function filesInDir($tdir)
{
$adr = $_GET["id"];
$ext = '.php';
$adrext = $adr . $ext;

        $dirs = scandir($tdir);
        foreach($dirs as $file)
        {
                if (($file == '.')||($file == '..'))
                {
                }
                elseif (is_dir($tdir.'/'.$file))
                {
                        filesInDir($tdir.'/'.$file);
                }

		if ($file == $adrext)
		{
			include $tdir.'/'.$file;
		}
        }
}
?>