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matis
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Joined: 9/5/2008
From: Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
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(PHP) Read url if else statement - 9/5/2008 8:46:13
Hi all,
I'm new here. I am Matis and I am from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. I am a freelance designer and not so much a coder. This is sometimes a problem for me as I have assignments where I have to do both. Hopefully I can find some useful help here.
So my first problem: I'm working on a site with a CMS (Drupal). It is a multilingual site with a flash header which contains the main menu items like Products and About us. I have made two different swf movies. One for each language. (header_en.swf and header_nl.swf) So that if you are viewing the site in dutch you'll see the dutch swf menu. The url of a specific page (on my local testing server) looks like this:
http://localhost/servername/?q=node/2 (For English pages)
and http://localhost/servername/?q=nl/node/2 (For Dutch translation)
Now I want to implement an if else statement in php that looks at the url of the page. If it contains '?q=nl' then it should load the dutch swf and if it doesn't the english swf. I read a similair topic here. Can anyone help me with this problem? I'm a PHPn00b so the biggest problem for me is the syntax.
Thanks in advance, Matis
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Mane
Posts: 105
Joined: 7/7/2005
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RE: (PHP) Read url if else statement - 9/5/2008 16:49:29
Hi. Welcome to the forum!
I'm not sure if you really need to read the URL for that particular problem. If there is some information like ?foo=blah after the URL, it is passed to PHP as a variable, in the $GET array. This is one of the ways to send information from page to page.
If I understand correctly all you have to do is use that variable in a conditional (if/else) statement:
<?php
if ($GET['q'] == 'nl') {
//Dutch
}
else {
//English
}
?>
Actually, in case q= is not set, it would be better to change that first line to something like
if (isset($GET['q']) && $GET['q'] == 'nl') {This checks to make sure that the variable 'q' exists first, which can prevent an error.
I'm not sure about the /node/2 at the end, though. Should this be part of the variable?
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