Article page links with HTML?

leech9021 · Jun 29, 2007

I am currently in the process of building a website for my dad and his business. He wrote up a big long article and wants to break it down into sub-pages. At the bottom of all these pages I wanted to have a php include script with just a simple something like, "Pages: 1, 2, 3, 4," etc.

My question is, is it possible to make it so that when it is on page 1, to have the hyperlink removed, but then put back when you move to page 2. Keep in mind I am going to make a little php file for this and just have a little phpinclude on the bottom of each site. I know if I just used simple HTML it would be very easy to do this.

Maybe is there some sort of "if" function? Like if I am on the first page, remove the hyperlink of the "1" at the bottom, and put it back for all the other pages.

Big-K · Jun 29, 2007

lets say you're doing something like index.php?page=2 to seperate pages, with a total of 5 pages(6 pages would make $i < 6 into $i < 7, etc), you would use something along these lines, it will still show every number every time, but it won't make it a hyperlink if its the page you are on.
Code:
for($i = 1; $i < 6; $i++){
     if($_GET['page'] == $i)
          echo $i.", ";
     else
          echo "<a href=\"index.php?page=".($i + 1)."\">".$i."</a>, ";
     }

leech9021 · Jun 29, 2007

Thanks for responding. With this code, the only thing I don't understand is what to name all the pages. Could you give me an example of what names would be for the first couple pages?
Thanks

MMJ · Jun 29, 2007

Big-K said:
lets say you're doing something like index.php?page=2 to seperate pages, with a total of 5 pages(6 pages would make $i < 6 into $i < 7, etc), you would use something along these lines, it will still show every number every time, but it won't make it a hyperlink if its the page you are on.
Code:
for($i = 1; $i < 6; $i++){
     if($_GET['page'] == $i)
          echo $i.", ";
     else
          echo "<a href=\"index.php?page=".($i + 1)."\">".$i."</a>, ";
     }
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Wouldn't exactly work.

Lets say you are on page 3. clicking on page 4 would lead to 5 because you say $i + 1. No point in that.

@leech9021: one way would would be to name part 1 of the article "1.html", part 2 "2.html", etc.

Then use this code:

PHP:

<?php //FIRST PART OF CODE if ($_GET['page'] > 0 && $_GET['page'] < 6) include("$_GET[page].html"); //SECOND PART OF CODE for($i = 1; $i < 6; $i++) { if($_GET['page'] == $i) echo "$i, "; else echo "<a href=\"?page=$i\">$i</a>, "; } ?>

Put the first part of code wherever you want the html file to be.

Put the second part of code where you want the links to show.

You could do a NEXT PAGE & PREVIOUS PAGE like this:

<a href="?page=<?= $_GET['page']-1 ?>">Previous page</a>

AND

<a href="?page=<?= $_GET['page']+1?>">Next page</a>

However if you want to do something like that you should do some validation first.

leech9021 · Jun 29, 2007

So, I'd rather name them something other than 1.html, 2.html, etc, because there are going to be more than one articles that I am going to be applying this to.

For example, would it be possible to name them intro1.html, intro2.html, etc.? And if this is possible, how would it affect the code you posted? For this first example there are going to be 5 pages.

Also, when you say put the first part of the code wherever I want the html file to be, what exactly do you mean by that? Can you be a bit more specific on where to put the first part?

I'm still fairly new to all this, thanks for your help and patience.

MMJ · Jun 29, 2007

1. Okay, change the code to include("intro$_GET[page].html");

2. Lets say the page intro1.html has inside of it "text text text". so call the include function wherever you want the text to be. for example if you wanted the page title to be "text text text" then do this:
<html>
<head>
<title><? include("intro1.html")?></title>
</head>
<body>
body content
</body>
</html>

See what I mean? play with it and you should get the hang of it.

leech9021 · Jun 29, 2007

ok, I get how the basic include function works, what I was wondering about was more the implementation of this certain script.
My intro1.php, intro2.php, etc files are going to be the different pages of the articles.
In these files, somewhere near the bottom (wherever I wanted to place the Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 links), I would put this part, right?

PHP:

if ($_GET['page'] > 0 && $_GET['page'] < 6) include("$_GET[page].html");

And then I would have a second file to put the rest of the script in? And according to the way the script it written, what would be the name of this second file?

MMJ · Jun 30, 2007

Pretty much. Play with it and you will understand how it works.

Big-K · Jun 30, 2007

whoops, yeah my code shouldn't have the $i + 1, just the $i, but whatev

MMJ · Jul 1, 2007

Big-K said:

whoops, yeah my code shouldn't have the $i + 1, just the $i, but whatev
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I hate those kind of programming mistakes.

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