Including header file using HTML

[elvenrunelord]

Yes it is. Check a html command site to see how this is done and I can't type it out off the top of my head. lol

[F0551L]

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[Xav]

Yeah, I definitely understand you, F0551L...

[chili5]

Yeah I'm confused also.

I've figured out how to make it so that pages that are included can't be viewed unless their included in a page. At the top of the included file:

PHP Code:

<?php
if (eregi("header.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
header("Location: index.php");
}
?>

of course, you could use the same concept to make the logo on the home page not link to the home page but still link on all the other pages. Amazing concept

[Xav]

What does eregi() do?

[TcM]

It compares, the string header.php with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == The filename of the loaded page.

[chili5]

It's a very useful function I've been using it a lot to do a lot of things. Like creating navigation and displaying links only on certain pages. Like it doesn't make sense on index.php to have the logo linking to index.php so:

PHP Code:

<?php
if (eregi("index.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
echo "<img src=\"logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" />";
} else {
echo "<a href=\"index.php\"><img src=\"logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" border=\"0\" /></a>";
}
?>

Of course it can be used to keep people off of included pages

[Xav]

So what's the difference between using eregi() and a normal if statement?

[chili5]

Well i think you need to use eregi inside a if statement or as some kind of decision to do anything with it. If I just echo the results of eregi, it will either return 1 for true or 0 for false. Which I can't do anything with.

PHP Code:

<?php
if (eregi("header.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
header("Location: index.php");
}
?>

However, if i check it for true, i can redirect the user away from the included file or have custom content for a certain page.

header.php:

PHP Code:

<?php
if (eregi("index.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {
echo "<img src=\"logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" />";
} else {
echo "<a href=\"index.php\"><img src=\"logo.jpg\" alt=\"logo\" border=\"0\" /></a>";
}
?>

see, if your on the home page, it doesn't make sense to link the logo to the home page, so you can use eregi to test what page, your on and link the logo if your not on the home page.

[Xav]

So what's wrong with:

PHP Code:

if ("index.php" == $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])