Check for current URI - and include if NOT matched

Hello,

I've been using this bit of PHP code within my "sidebar.php" file to insert
menu items (external links) depending on what URI is viewed, and and it
works great so far:

<?php
  $homepage = "/";
  $currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  if($homepage==$currentpage) {
  include('homepage-only-stuff.php');
  }
?>
<?php
  $antivirus = "/anti-virus/";
  $antivirussub = "/anti-virus/anti-virus-articles.php";
  $currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  if(($antivirus==$currentpage) || ($antivirussub==$currentpage)) {
  include('antivirus-only-stuff.php');
  }
?>

PHP:

ETC... (you get the picture )

But now I want to exclude my blog pages. I can if I use:

 <?php
  $homepage = "/weblog/";
  $currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  if($homepage!=$currentpage) {
  include('non-blog-stuff.php');
  }
?>

PHP:

But that does not match all the specific post pages, nor do I want to
hard-code every post URI I make anyway

So, how can I check for /weblog/AnyPostPage-URI/ (as a "wildcard" kind of
match?) and exclude them?

 

Try this

<?php
  $homepage = "/weblog/";
  $currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
  if(strpos($currentpage, $homepage) === FALSE) {
  include('non-blog-stuff.php');
  }
?>

PHP:

 

Tonybogs,

You rock! That works perfectly. Finding that needle in the haystack makes
perfect sense. Can I ask why the triple "if equal" (===) instead of == ?

PS: You get some cool green rep and iTrade for this

PSS: I was able to green rep you, but I get an error every time I try the
process of iTrading...

 

The === FALSE means an absolute match. The problem being 0 also == FALSE

So if the position of /weblog/ is 0, which it will be as its the first part of the URI the outcome of strpos($currentpage, $homepage) will be 0 and 0 == FALSE so youll be including the file everytime.

I hope that is clear.

I appreciate the rep, no worries about the iTrade just happy to help out

Good Luck with your site

 

I think itrader only works in the BST forums ...