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nemesisjack
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:30 am    Post subject: Does every page on a site has to Reply with quote
Hello,

I'm trying to teach myself PHP and Smarty. I'm starting out with something simple: A simple site with just a few pages (home, about, contact, etc.). I have created a template and views for the header and footer and I'm pulling the content dynamically from a MySQL database.

This is a rather simple question but I cannot seem to find an answer:

What is the recommended way to add more pages? Should I have an index.php, then a about.php, a contact.php, etc?
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mohrt
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
make one entry page and use multiple templates. so your URL could look like:

Code:
index.php?page=home
index.php?page=about


or with a little apache rewrite magic:

Code:
/home
/about


Then in the php:

Code:
$page = $_GET['page']; // sanitize me!
$smarty->display("$page.tpl");


You could also go a step further:
Code:
$smarty->assign('page',$page);
$smarty->display('index.tpl');


Then give index.tpl control of what templates are loaded.

index.tpl:
Code:
{include file="header.tpl"}
{include file="$page.tpl"}
{include file="footer.tpl"}


(or use template inheritance, much nicer)
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nemesisjack
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thank you mohrt.

Your answer really helped me move my search in the right direction.

This is a problem where I feel like I understand the latter stages a lot more than the beginning ones.

So, the user finds this site on google or whatever and goes to mydomain.com, which will display the contents of the index.php/index.php?page=home ?
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mohrt
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.mydomain.com/

Will pick up index.php if Apache is set to that for the default index page. From there it is up to you. You can setup your default $page to whatever you want, example:

index.php:

Code:
// make $page default to "home" if none is set in the URL
$page = !empty($_GET['page']) ? $_GET['page'] : 'home';
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