Professional Web Development Forums: PHP index.php?action=stuff

Okies!

My first tutorial here. It is teh very simple. We will be using get. Get is originally for forms (i think :P). But people have used it for other things because it displays the values in the url. Which means you can use the values in the URL as different pages. Just a couple if statements and you have a whole website, all on index.php! :P

So lets get started. I will show you the whole script then break it down into little pieces.:drool:

Okay lets break that down...

Begin the PHP code



$url = $_GET['action']; //get teh thing after action=


We get the value after index.php?action= and put that value into the variable $url



if($url == "admin") {


If that value we put in $url equals "admin", then...



echo "some admin stuff here";


We display the text "some admin stuff here"



}


Lets close the if statement.




if($url == "profile") {

echo "some profile stuff here";

}

if($url == "logout") {

echo "logout teh user";

}

if($url == "login") {

echo "display teh login form";

}



Lets use that method over and over until we have the desired amount of pages.




else {



If $url doesn't equal any of our set values, then....



echo "You r stupid because i cant find that page";


We display some angry text.



}


Lets close that else statement.



?>


We are now finished with our PHP script :woot: