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How do I use PHP to display one html page or another?

Answer 1

+4 A:

if ($variable){
  include("file1.html");
}
else {
  include("file2.html");
}

Thomas 2010-01-24 10:01:05

Answer 2

+2 A:

The easiest way would be to have your HTML in two separate files and use include():

if ($variable) {
    include('page1.html');
}
else {
    include('page2.html');
}

zombat 2010-01-24 10:01:28

Answer 3

+2 A:

using the ternary operator:

 include(($variable ? 'page1' : 'page2').'.html');

Alex LE 2010-01-24 10:10:42

Answer 4

A:

If you want to avoid creating "an html page for every php page", then you could do something like this, with the "real" content directly inside the PHP page.

<?PHP
include 'uc.php';
if ($UCdisplay) {
    include("under_construction.php");
    exit;
}
?>
<html>

<!-- Your real content goes here -->

</html>

The idea is this: If $UCdisplay is true, then your under construction page is shown, and execution stops at exit; - nothing else is shown. Otherwise, program flow "falls through" and the rest of the page is output. You'll have one PHP file for each page of content.

You could side-step this issue by moving the code that checks $UCdisplay directly into uc.php; this would prevent you from having to write that same if statement at the top of every file. The trick is to have the code exit after you include the construction page.

meagar 2010-01-25 19:44:20

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