Split page into 2, but file name remains index

@netzeyeJul 23.2008

Hi, this is my products page: ~~[url]~~http://netzeye.com/Accessories/index.php[/url]

I’d like split this page into 2 because the images are taking too long to load. In php, i see some websites that have urls after index like index.php?id=1 or something like that and then id=2 could be the 2nd page. I’m not quite sure what the correct term for this is though… But anyways, can anyone please tell me how to do this?

Thanks!

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@Mr__E__CrypticJul 23.2008 — #urls like index.php?id=1 send the variable 1 in the url.

Tou can call this ID from PHP by using something like

$id = strip_tags(addslashes($_GET['id']));

this will assign the ID (1) to the var $id, you can then use this to decide what happens on the page, a simple example would be to split the content of your site to two pages and save them as page1.php and page2.php then replace the content (on the original page) with:

[code=php]<?php
 
 $id = strip_tags(addslashes($_GET['id']));
 
 //use a default page if the ID isn't set
 if( (!isset($_GET['id'])) or (empty($_GET['id'])) )
 {
 include('page1.php');
 }
 else
 {
 include('page' . $id . '.php');
 }
 
 ?>[/code]

You'd really want to add more error-checking and handling to it, but might give you an idea where to go.

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Thanks! I'm going to have a go at this right now... Hey by the way, do you have any instant messaging program where i can contact you? It's faster than replying on forums ?

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Right now, I have split my index.php page where it had like 70 products into 7 pages, named consecutively from index1.php to index7.php, with the index.php page having only the code you gave me above.

I have a question though. Do the index1 to index7.php have assigned id's already? I'm confused on this as well as how the transition works from id to id

@Mr__E__CrypticJul 23.2008 — #No, they don't, and they don't need them.

this line:

$id = strip_tags(addslashes($_GET['id']));

gets the vale of id from page.php?id= and stores it as $id so if you'd used page.php?id=1 then $id would equal 1, if you'de used page.php?id=somethingElse then $id would equal somethingElse.

what you're actally saying in the follwoing line:

include('page' . $id . '.php');

is

include('page[B]theValueof$id[/B].php');

so, if you link to mypage.php?id=1, then that line would be saying:

include('page1.php');

if you link to mypage.php?id=2, then that line would be saying:

include('page2.php');

etc etc.

Incidently, you don't need to duplicate all page elements for each index.php you have.

you can use the normal page format and insert the php like below:

[code=html]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 <title>Untitled Document</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <?php 
 
 $id = strip_tags(addslashes($_GET['id'])); 
 
 //use a default page if the ID isn't set 
 if( (!isset($_GET['id'])) or (empty($_GET['id'])) ) 
 { 
 include('page1.php'); 
 } 
 else 
 { 
 include('page' . $id . '.php'); 
 } 
 
 ?>
 </body>
 </html>[/code]

and then each index1.php, index2.php etc only needs to contain the code you'd normall have in the body.

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Ok. So in my index.php page, i would have my normal layout, and insert the code below, then for my index1 to index7.php, i would only have the things from my content area?

[code=html]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 <title>Untitled Document</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <?php 
 
 $id = strip_tags(addslashes($_GET['id'])); 
 
 //use a default page if the ID isn't set 
 if( (!isset($_GET['id'])) or (empty($_GET['id'])) ) 
 { 
 include('page1.php'); 
 } 
 else 
 { 
 include('page' . $id . '.php'); 
 } 
 
 ?>
 </body>
 </html>[/code]

[/quote]

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Ok i sort of got it to work now, here is the link: http://www.netzeye.com/test/index.php?id=1 (that's my http://www.netzeye.com/test/page1.php), but when i change id to 2, which is my http://www.netzeye.com/test/page2.php, the layout messes up. I made sure that all that is in my page2.php are the things in my content area, no layout, but it's showing my layout as well.

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Ok it works now lol, thanks for the codes!

http://www.netzeye.com/test/index.php

I have a page selection thing at the bottom so visitors can get quick access to the diff pages. Is there a quick way to do this, or would i have to type out the whole html code ex:

Pages: <a href="http://">1</a> <a href="http://">2</a>[/quote]

@Mr__E__CrypticJul 23.2008 — #Typing it out's probably easiest since it's only 7 pages. Incidently, there's something up with the first page (the About Us/Terms & Conditions/Contact Us are being pushed out of place). Other pages are fine though.

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #Typing it out's probably easiest since it's only 7 pages. Incidently, there's something up with the first page (the About Us/Terms & Conditions/Contact Us are being pushed out of place). Other pages are fine though.[/QUOTE]

Thx for pointing it out!

@netzeyeauthorJul 23.2008 — #nevermind?

@Mr__E__CrypticJul 23.2008 — #huh? what? who? where? what happened?

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