I have gone through the numerous threads regarding this subject but cannot translate any of the solutions over to my basic project. I have followed a tutorial on a basic dynamic site, the index page calls in home.php or whichever is selected from the menu. I have connected to a Mysql DB, this is working fine. I have my SELECT statement and variables in place with help from various sources however I only get the first record meta and title information showing no matter which page I view.
I have tried as with a static site having a $page_id on ever page, this worked fine with a static site but when it came to transferring that over to the dynamic site I am getting no where fast.
I would be grateful for some help and assistance. Thanks in advance.
My code so far is
//fetchmeta.php
include 'connect.php';
$page_id = 'meta_id';
$title = 'title';
$pname = 'name';
$desc = 'description';
$key = 'keywords';
$aut = 'author';
$copyr = 'copyright';
$email = 'email';
$rating = 'rating';
$robots = 'robots';
$visit = 'revisit';
$exp = 'expires';
$dist = 'distribution';
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `meta_data` WHERE `meta_id` = {$page_id}";
$query = $db->query($sql);
$row = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
unset ($row['meta_id']) ; // discard that one
foreach ($row as $desc => $content) {
echo "<meta name=\"$desc\" content=\"$content\" />\n" ;
}
echo "<title>";
echo $row[$title];
echo "</title>\n";
My site code is
// index.php
<?php require_once 'inc/header.php'; ?>
<div id="content">
<?php
$pages_dir = 'inc';
if(!empty($_GET['page'])){
$pages = scandir($pages_dir, 0);
unset($pages[0], $pages[1]);
$page = $_GET['page'];
if (in_array($page.'.php', $pages)){
include $pages_dir.'/'.$page.'.php';
} else {
echo "<br><b>Sorry that page does not exist.</b><br><br>You will be redirected in 5 seconds to the homepage.";
header("refresh:5; index.php");
}
} else {
include ($pages_dir.'/home.php');
}
?>
</div> <!-- end of wrapper -->
<?php require_once 'inc/footer.php'; ?>
The header.php file is
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<?php include_once 'fetchmeta.php'; ?>
<link href="inc/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><h1>Dynamic Site</h1></div>
<?php include 'menu.php'; ?>
As I say I have tried including a $page_id variable on the content pages but this does not do anything.
<?php $page_id = 1; ?>
Welcome to the home page
Could someone shed some light on where I am going wrong. Thanks again.
