Re: Dynamic PHP links

Eduard Grigoryan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to PHP and I'd appreciate your advice a lot. > I'm trying to use dynamic PHP links instead of plain HTML and I'm gonna > use something like > this: > File "index.php": > <? > <a href=index.php?content=story.htm>story</a><br> > <a href=index.php?content=about.htm>about</a><br> > <? > if(isset($content)): > include $content; > else: > include "about.htm"; > endif; > ?> > > But a guy told me it is not preferable to use this method because of > security considerations. > I'm sure there is a common way of building dynamic links; am I on wrong > way? Now that you (hopefully) understand the problem, here's a solution for THIS case: <?php if (!isset($content)) $content = 'about.htm'; switch($content){ case 'about.htm': case 'story.htm': include $content; break; default: die("Page not found"); break; } You'll need to add one line for each page, but you will never accidentally try to include a file you didn't mean to include. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm