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ragnar

Sun Oct 21 2007, 12:20PM

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How about you do it the other way around, as I first suggested?

Have a header page, and include it from each content? This circumvents the problem altogether, and you can have nice urls without ?variable=value in them (good for Google and for people who want to navigate to your site by hand, or post links of it in forums without getting confused about what part of the URL to copy).

uzzors2k

Sun Oct 21 2007, 02:19PM

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That worked, thanks Steve.

Matt: I'm not sure. It could turn out just as good, but I've already made everything for a table style layout like c4r0 has. By including the sidebar wouldn't it have to be a topbar, unless you put tables in each content page, which would take some of the point out of it?

c4r0

Sun Oct 21 2007, 02:55PM

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I'm adding "_" symbol to each file name, eg. "_lasers.php". The include function looks like this:
include "_".$page.".php";
Address "index.php?page=lasers" loads _lasers.php file to index. Then when typing "index.php?page=http://something" the script is trying to load "_http://something" file which obviously causes "no such file" error. Looks like this method works well :)

uzzors2k

Sun Oct 21 2007, 06:52PM

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That was smart, and very simple. You should have mentioned it earlier.

My new website is done! See how many errors you can find before it gets too many views.

Dalus

Sun Oct 21 2007, 09:41PM

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Looking good nice and simple layout really straight forward. I haven't found any bugs so far.

ragnar

Mon Oct 22 2007, 01:27AM

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Uzzors wrote ...

That worked, thanks Steve.

Matt: I'm not sure. It could turn out just as good, but I've already made everything for a table style layout like c4r0 has. By including the sidebar wouldn't it have to be a topbar, unless you put tables in each content page, which would take some of the point out of it?

Uh, Uzzors, you can include stuff anywhere you want within the file, including at the top and at the bottom!

For example:

in TOP.PHP:
<table>
<tr>
<td>your left sidebar</td><td>

In YOURPAGE.PHP:
<? include(top.php);?>
your content
<? include(bottom.php);?>

in BOTTOM.PHP:
</td><td>your right sidebar or footer</td>
</tr>
</table>

I won't rant at you about why you shouldn't be using tabular layouts to hold non-tabular content, but I see this solution as far more elegant.

Simon

Tue Oct 23 2007, 12:59AM

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I've found a nasty bug in your page, which I'll PM you about. When you've fixed it, post here. (It's quite amusing and will make a good warning to others.)

Amateur-Scientist

Tue Oct 23 2007, 04:54AM

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Remember to validate your page at:

Passing this will help ensure most browser will be able to render your site.

uzzors2k

Tue Oct 23 2007, 01:22PM

Registered Member #95 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:57PM
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This is the bug Simon found:

http://uzzors2k.000webhost.com/index.php?page=index

You can imagine what that would result in... the page would load a new instance of itself into the previous, again and again! Resulting in a cascading window of indexes. Pretty fun bug!

Your simple fix prevents that from happening too, c4r0, I think I'm going to have to rename my files and employ it. Who knows what else might turn up!

My page fails the html validator because it loads portions of the main tags from the included document into index.php, which already has them. Such as <html>, which should only appear outside of the body tags. Is this a big problem? I'm sure the vast majority of people have updated browsers where such errors make no difference?

c4r0

Tue Oct 23 2007, 05:29PM

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Amateur-Scientist wrote ...

Remember to validate your page at:

Passing this will help ensure most browser will be able to render your site.

My website has 26 errors

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