how to structure this...???

so i wanna be able to have a condition like this....

if device == Test

then include Test-home.php


if device == test2

then include test2-home.php




Thats an example. i want a way to load a page inside a URL so i can have different versions of the page loading on the same url. but i dont wanna have to worry about escaping 800 lines. how can i pull it off?

 

If I understood you correctly, you can do it like this:

<?php
for($i=1; $i<10; $i++){
    if($device == "test".$i){
      include "test".$i."-home.php";
    }
}
?>

PHP:

 

oooo thats interesting. im talking more on the lines of a device i put test 1 ....2 in for the example.


its gonna be more like if device == iphone

then

include iphone-home.php

but i dont want to have to escape out the entire iphone-home.php page. because im going to have an entire pages content.. and im gonna have an iphone- version of my entire site. and a blackberry- but like i want to keep all the same pages visually thats why i want to use this system. internally this is whats gonna happen but user end they go to home.php and if they are on a particular device then that device-home.php is loaded but it still shows home.php as the url. same with any page on the site. and i dont want to have to escape out EVERY PAGE, because i have a full socal networking site im recoding into this. options to that?

 

You just do something like this:

<?php 
if ( $thisDevice == 'something1' ) {
// include something
}elseif ( $thisDevice == 'something2' ) {
// include something else
}elseif ( $thisDevice == 'something3' ) {
// include something else
}
?>

PHP:

..and so on... that's just my way, there's probable an easier solution.

 

switch ($device)
{
	case "device #1":
		include("home-1.php");
		break;
	case "device #2":
		include("home-2.php");
		break;
	default:
		include("home-unknown.php");
}

PHP:

 

As the above post shows but does not explain much, a switch will be alot better at getting the results you need. Have a look at this link for more information,

http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

Glen

 

What do you mean by escaping?
if you want to include a page whose name is based on a string variable you can do it this way:

<?php 
$st = "-home.php";
$devicename = $yourvar;
$st = $yourvar."-home.php";
include $st;
}
?>

PHP:

 

sorry for the late reply. Yeah i did it similar to that @thewiseguy i did somethign like this

$pageid = index.php <--- on the physical page...


then i used a system which groups user agents so if a useragent has the term iphone in it, then device == iphone

so then i created copies of every page and set a system to redirect if mobile == 1

and it redirects to $device - .$pageid. so iphone-index.php

etc etc.

thats a general idea of how i pulled it off. Thanks for your help though? any of you have skype?

 

I will go with the switch case because it is faster than else if.