Re: Serving pages based on user input

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:35 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 22:17 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 01:32 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > Ólafur Waage schreef: > > > > You can read about the header function. > > > > > > > > http://is2.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php > > > > > > hi Ólafur, > > > > > > his situation doesn't require a redirect (he only thinks it does), > > > and redirects suck when used unecessarily. (plenty of info on the web > > > about why this is so ... hunt for a 'rant' by the formidable Richard Lynch > > > in the archives of this list for instance) > > > > Oh dear, not this BS again. If the content is different then perform a > > redirect. Do you really want your login page to be indexed as your > > homepage? Lynch's arguments on this were weak. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > -- > > http://www.interjinn.com > > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > > > > > I thought the arguments were very valid, but can be take to the point of > extreme. Keep similar pages grouped into one PHP file. After all, this > is what PHP is for. Don't try to replicate your HTML pages as PHP pages, > thats a silly idea and takes more time to manage. You're confusing using a front page loader with redirection. The distinction being that I would suggest that you redirect to the URL that your front loader would use to load a given page rather than just presenting said page within another page's context to save a redirect. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP