Help me with my navigation script

[Mitch]

I use this navigation script

<?php
$page = $_GET['page'];
if ( !empty($page) && file_exists('' . $page . '.php') && stristr( $page, '.' ) == False )
{
// pages = directory where you store your pages
$file = '' . $page . '.php';
}
else
{
// home.php = default page
$file = 'home.php';
}

include $file;
//
?>

Only the problem is when one page does not exist , it will show the default page.

Can some one make a error page when these pages does not exist

 

[bigjoe4]

Howe about replace the default page with the error page?

 

[Mitch]

I tried that when you got to the index , you start with the error page

 

[Livewire]

Make this your code (lines in red are new)

			 				              <?php 
$page = $_GET['page'];
[COLOR=Red]if (empty($page)) {
$page = "index";
}[/COLOR]
if ( !empty($page) && file_exists('' . $page . '.php') && stristr( $page, '.' ) == False ) 
{
// pages = directory where you store your pages
   $file = '' . $page . '.php';
}
else
{
// home.php =  default page
   $file = 'home.php';
}
  
include $file;
// 
?>

Not the prettyest code but what it'll do is if $page is empty, it'll make it NOT empty. Really cheesy and theres probably a more elegant way to do it, but that'll make it so if $page is empty, it'll set it to whatever you want your index to be.

That should work because, in theory, the only time you won't tell it what page you want to be on is if someone loads the homepage (like yoursubdomain.x10hosting.com/ - doesn't define $page, so $page is empty, but they want the index).

Lemme know if it works; thats almost identical to something I'm running on my page, cept that second if-statement on mine doesn't exist cause I did it differently

 

[Mitch]

Thank you

 

[Livewire]

Thank you

Glad to help, specially since it's something I ran into myself when hand-coding an old version of my site

 

[Mitch]

When i see the error page the copyright code is ? , http://mitch.exofire.net/?page=cod

And when i look at the error page without the navigation script i see it good:
http://mitch.exofire.net/404.php