PHP how to create php pages from files

Question

So, this will be very basic question.

I am new to php.

So, let say my domain name is example.com. And I have 4 php files for 4 different pages:

intro.php for example.com/intro

welcome.php for example.com/welcome

computer.php for example.com/computer

phone.php for example.com/phone

The question that I have is that how do I create different children url based on the php files that I have? So that appropriate files will be called when an user visits the url.

What is the structure?

Thanks

Do we know what is the web server? In short you must define rewrite rule(s). — mitkosoft, Feb 20 '16 at 07:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '16 at 07:19

Perhaps you need somthing like routing?

See this link here for a start or:

http://blogs.shephertz.com/2014/05/21/how-to-implement-url-routing-in-php/

a framework would do the routing for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

Did that help you?

Kind Regards

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '16 at 07:23

Try this Htaccess

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule (.*) $1\\.php [L]

or

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1\.php

You still have to change all the links on your site to point to the new URLs.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 20 '16 at 08:41

I think the easiest way would to make a html form with a method "get" that way you submit a form with a query string. Say you have a web app which has articles, you can have a page that processes the articles, say, "single_post.php". From index.php you can have

<form action="single_post.php" method="get" ><input type="hidden" name="key" value="<?php $key ?>" /><button type="submit">Read article</button></form>

In single_post.php you get:

<?php $key = $_GET['key'] ?>

Then you can use php to manipulate the page as you see fit.

PHP how to create php pages from files

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