Im a newb

[basementman]

yo i just started php today and i wanna be able to include files using GET but im doing something wrong and i cant figure out how to fix it.
I have a file called index.php
and somewhere in there the code is

PHP Code:

<a href=index.php?body=news.htm>Test</a>
<? include("$body");?>

when i click test it loads it fine but just index.php is giving me this error
Warning: Failed opening '' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/basementman.ppnhost.ws/httpdocs/new/index.php on line 65

how do i fix it so that it loads the news with the index and im able to have links that use GET, but dont show the news?

( take a look at http://basementman.ppnhost.ws/new/ )

[redhead]

Perhaps by:

PHP Code:

<a href=.....>
<?php
if(!isset($body) || "$body" == "")
 $body='some_exisitng_default_file';
include("$body");
?>

Since the $body isn't declared, when you call the page first, without any ?body=blah

[basementman]

thx man

[basementman]

how would i set a default page for

PHP Code:

<?php

$thefile = "data/$page.txt";
if (file_exists($thefile))
{
include("$thefile");
}
else
{
include("data/error.txt");
}

?>

[redhead]

What do you mean with "default page" ??

If I'm catching what you want, you can do it something like:

PHP Code:

<?php
if (isset($the_file) && file_exists("data/$thefile.txt"))
{
include("/data/$thefile.txt");
}
else
{
  if(isset($the_file))
    include("data/error.txt");
  else
    include("data/default.txt");
}
?>

This allows the user to parse a ?the_file=something along in the url, and you will include that, if it exists. If it dosn't exists they will get an error, if they are just viewing the page, without any parsing of the the_file argument, they will be shown the default file.

Is it something like that you wanted ?