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  18 years ago

  by psn

  psn

  , United States

  Joined 18 years ago

  I got my menu like this
  

  
  Home
  Links
  Site Index
  News
  TSO
  Sims 2
  Sims
  Link 2 Us
  Contact Us
  About Us
  Vacancies  
  Which are all links
  but i saw that you can't go like. links.php to goto that page. how do you do it other wise

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  18 years ago

  by racing_fire

  racing_fire

  Las Vegas, NV, USA, United States

  Joined 18 years ago

  can you re-phrase your problem

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  18 years ago

  by psn

  psn

  , United States

  Joined 18 years ago

  well i have a menu.php
  which has links to certain pages these are the links in text
  Home
  Links
  Site Index
  News
  TSO
  Sims 2
  Sims
  Link 2 Us
  Contact Us
  About Us
  Vacancies  
  I read that you arent suppose to say eg. links.php to use as url but to use
  index.php?whatever=pagename
  i dont exactly understand and when i tried it on one of the it didn't work.

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  18 years ago

  by gringod

  Gringod

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 19 years ago

  it sound like you've heard about include();
  whilst this is a very useful function, it can lead to easy exposure of code and remote code execution.
  if you want to use the include(); method to open pages, you should use something like the following:
  

  
  

  Code:

  
  if (ereg("[a-z]+(\[a-z]+)", $whatever) && !ereg("[.].[.]*",$whatever)) {
     include($whatever.".php");
  } else {
     echo "Sorry, that is not a valid file name.";
  }
  

  
  whilst this is still not totaly secure, it would be better than nothing.
  

  
  FYI: this method is used so you don't have only have to worry about sorting out the menu, and header and footer on one page, and just include the main content for each other page.  But there is nothing wrong with linking to links.php or any other page... but you are creating more work for yourself.
  

  
  ps, the in my experience, the include(); method is easier for creating themes.

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