Re: There has to be a better way!!

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 11:58 -0400, Jason Pruim wrote: > Okay so I've been fighting with this for awhile now and haven't found > a better way yet.... > > What I want to do, is I have a small portion of my website included > into a template. It is displaying hosting plans so on the main site > "index.php" I want it to display a little bit of text (Same as on the > main hosting page) and just 1 random hosting plan. then if they click > on that plan and go into the main hosting section, I want them to see > ALL the hosting plans. > > Here's the code that I'm using: > > if($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = "/index.php") { > $sql = "SELECT * FROM hosting ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT > 1"; > }else{ > $sql = "SELECT * FROM hosting ORDER BY > hostingSort ASC"; > > } > > Now... I know there MUST be a better way to do it but I can't see the > tree's through the forest. > > Any other way I could do it? > > I'm avoiding having lots of duplicate code/text on my pages. > > > To avoid duplicating code, use an include file. If you already have some form of include (for a DB for example) then you can include your other includes in that. Also, not sure if it was a type in your email, but I think you want to use == in your if statement there, instead of = ;) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk