Dreamweaver button link to include file

GameOn · 05-04-2005, 03:50 AM

Hi
Couple of small questions...

1.
I have about six buttons but I need one to link to a php include file... how do i do this???

I tried
<td align="left" valign="top" ><a href="<? include 'about.inc.php' ?>" target="_self"><img src="aboutus.gif" alt="Click here to view" width="143" height="35" border="0"></a></td>

But it just showed the contents of the include file underneath the previous button in the table...

Any ideas?
Also any ideas to my other hyperlink query post?

2.
Also, say a php file carries out a action like updating the database, you have a echo at the end once the update has occured confirming that it was successful.
I want to put it into another php file, eg. a successful comment in index, how do I do this?

I tried the echo before the include statement, but it put the comment above the page information rather then in the middle of it.

eg.
<?PHP
echo " Update complete.\n
 
Here are the products. ";
include 'products.php';
?>

How do I get it to go to another page after its processed the info of the inc file, and put the confirm message (echo code in inc file) to another page.

At the moment I basically have to put the entire contents of the site on the processing page so that its not just a blank page with a confirmation message.

sde · 05-04-2005, 08:27 AM

1. why do you need the about us button to link to an include file?

the function include() will make it as if the page that you are including is in the same script that you are calling the function. it would be like copying the contents of about.inc.php and pasting it in the href tag where you did.

it seems like you just need an aboutus.php page and just link to it normally like you would any other html file.

<a href=aboutus.php><img src=aboutus.gif></a>

#2 sorta goes along with the same logic. reasons for using includes are usually so you don't have to maintain the same code in various parts of the site. for example, i might make a database connection include file. i use a database connection on every page, but i make it an include so if i ever need to change my connection information, it updates on every page that it was included in.

for question2, you could go about it a couple different ways. the easiest is probably to do the processing on the same page and submit the form to itself. see the example below:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?

if($_POST){

  // do the processing code here

}

?>

<form method=post action=<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>>

<input type=text name=somefield> <input type=button name=submit value=submit>

</form>

in the processing area of that code, you could do whatever you want .. and you could even do an if/else to determine if you want to show that form or not.

alternatively, you could make the action of the form submit to a seperate page. in that case, your processing logic would be in that target page.