URI Dependent Content

[Geronantimo]

I am having difficulty getting this to work...

I have some code that I would like not to display on particular webpages. I have a line of PHP like this:

<?php if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] !== "/" ) { ?>

html content

<?php } ?>

This works inasmuch as the HTML content is not displayed on the home page. I would like to add several other pages for which the HTML content is not displayed but I have not worked out how to combine them.

For example, I would like to add

<?php if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] !== "/checkout/cart/" ) { ?>

<?php if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] !== "/myaccount/" ) { ?>

but I have not succeeded. Can somebody show me what I am missing?

 

[feherke]

Hi

According my experience, your approach is not easy to use and enhance.

I would change the condition : instead of excluding if condition is false, I would include if condition is true. And I would put the separate pieces of HTML in separate files.

Anyway I would store the conditions in an array ( here I implemented your exclusion logic ) :

[navy]$exclude[/navy][teal]=[/teal][b]array[/b][teal]([/teal]
  [green][i]'content.htm'[/i][/green][teal]=>[/teal][b]array[/b][teal]([/teal][green][i]'/'[/i][/green][teal]),[/teal]
  [green][i]'cart.htm'[/i][/green]   [teal]=>[/teal][b]array[/b][teal]([/teal][green][i]'/checkout/cart/'[/i][/green][teal]),[/teal]
  [green][i]'account.htm'[/i][/green][teal]=>[/teal][b]array[/b][teal]([/teal][green][i]'/myaccount/'[/i][/green][teal])[/teal]
[teal]);[/teal]

[b]foreach[/b] [teal]([/teal][navy]$exclude[/navy] [b]as[/b] [navy]$file[/navy][teal]=>[/teal][navy]$condition[/navy][teal])[/teal]
  [b]if[/b] [teal](![/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]in_array[/color][teal]([/teal][navy]$_SERVER[/navy][teal][[/teal][green][i]'REQUERT_URI'[/i][/green][teal]],[/teal][navy]$condition[/navy][teal]))[/teal]
    [red]include[/red][teal]([/teal][navy]$file[/navy][teal]);[/teal]

[small][maroon]Warning[/maroon] The above code was not tested[/small]

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[IPGuru]

Continuing with your approach you need to use a logical OR to combine the conditions


you could try

<?php
$uri=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
if ($uri!="/" or $uri!=""/Checkout/cart/" ) {
?>
html
<?php } ?>

this approach soon becomes unwieldly

I would suggest you instead check each item & set a flag to dsignify if the info should be shown
if the code to do this is placed at the top of the page the flag can be checked wherever necessary

 

[jpadie]

I guess feherke's codes should probably have an exit() statement after the include.

the alternative route (no particular advantage over feherke's) is to use switch statements

switch (strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])){
    case '/':
    case '/anothergoodpage.php':
    case '/folder/yetanothergoodpage.php'
       include 'somehtmlcontent.html';
       //maybe exit();
       break;
} //end switch

 

[Geronantimo]

Thanks to feherke, IPGuru and jpadie,

I shall test all three approaches and see which works best for my purposes.

 

[IPGuru]

to give some more code to my suggestion of setting a flag

<?php
$uri=$_SERVER('REQUEST_URI');
$nodisp=FALSE;

$nodisp=($uri=="/")?TRUE:$nodip;
$nodisp=($uri=="/checkout/cart/")?TRUE:$nodip;
$nodisp=($uri=="/myaccount/")?TRUE:$nodip;
$nodisp=($uri=="<another webpage")?TRUE:$nodip;
?>
main html
<?php
if (!$nodisp) {
?>
optional html
<?php
}
?>

untested but i think the idea is clear

 

[IPGuru]

of course that should be $nodisp not $nodip in the 4 ternary operators (spot the copy & paste typeo)

Not sure who on here first drew my attention to the ternary operator but it is great for streamlining simple "if then else" constructs for setting variables.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I guess feherke's codes should probably have an exit() statement after the include.

Nope. Nobody said that in a page will be included only one of the HTML fragments. In that case the exclusion approach sounds even worst.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[jpadie]

@feherke
fair enough.

This whole approach feels wrong, imo.