Re: help on using 'request_uri' to make a front-end site

UsDonn Ingle wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to get a little templating thing going and I want > everything to pass through a single index.php file which then decides what > page is wanted and includes them. > > The scheme is to go to a url like [http://localhost/~donn/blah/] which > serves index.php in that dir. That includes 'home.php' > > home.php has a link to 'use1.php' > > The problem I am having is that as I click back and forth between home and > use1 the url starts growing... > > I get things like [http://localhost/~donn/blah/index.php/index.php/use1] and > it just keeps getting longer. > > I include my code below, very much shortened. I am sure I am missing some > obvious way to control links in this weird situation where every page is > *really* index.php but I still need to link from page to page. > > [code] > [index.php] > <?php > $expl = explode("/",$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); > $resource = $expl[count($expl)-1]; > if ($resource=="") $resource="home"; > > if (file_exists($resource.".php") ) { > include $resource.".php"; > } else { > echo "No such file."; > } > ?> > > [home.php] > <h1>home</h1> > <a href="index.php/use1">link to use1</a> > > [use1.php] > <h1>use1</h1> > <a href="index.php/home">Back</a> > > The overall idea is to have clean urls without a bunch of htaccess stuff > (which mystifies me). I want to be able to bookmark > [http://localhost/~donn/blah/index.php/somepage] and have stuff like > [http://localhost/~donn/blah/index.php/gallery:showpic1] > > Thanks for reading. > \d > > > Use /index.php instead of index.php maybe...