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[digatle]

I'm trying to code our Intranet's homepage to be a little more dynamic rather than having multiple home pages. I'm trying to find out to what direction do I start looking at when coding this. Here's what I have:

We use MT (Movabletype). We have our sections setup and we have categories under it. We have 6 main sections and multiple categories under it.

I want to code our homepage to look at a dropdown menu. If you are looking at say section #1 I want to list all of #1's categories. If you look at say #1-#58 how does that code out?

Does this make any since? Basically the home page to everyone's going is going to look the same but the colors are going to be different (already figured that part out).

Digatle

 

[sleipnir214]

Moveabletype?

I'm not sure what it is you're trying to do.

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[digatle]

http://www.digatle.com/spider

This is the page I'm dealing with.

I have 2 variables:

$siteID
$siteDepartment

I need to have the homepage be something like:

http://www.digatle.com/spider/index.php?siteID=O&siteDepartment=O1

How do I code the page to allow this passing of variables instead of hard coding it?

Digatle

 

[sleipnir214]

I'm still not sure what you mean.



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[digatle]

I don't understand what you need then to be able to answer this question!

I'll try it like this.

I have 2 variables:

$siteID
$siteDepartment

$siteID has 6 known variables:

B, O, MS, F, M & CD

These are represented on the page at

http://www.digatle.com/spider

B = Breakroom
O = Operations
MS = Member Services
F = Finance
M = Marketing
CD = Corporate Development

Under each of these are a list of other groups passed through as #'s ranging from 1 - 520.

I'm trying to figure out how to pass the $siteID and $siteDepartment through the browser so I can have 1 page rather than 520+ pages. Like the following:

http://www.digatle.com/spider/index.php?siteID=F&siteDepartment=153

This then makes my index page look like Finance (using finance colors) and using includes show me the 153 menu. How do I code my index.php page to allow this type of get?

Digatle

 

[sleipnir214]

It looks like the way you're doing it works pretty well. Programmatically code the ids into the URL.

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[digatle]

I have not accomplished this. The page does NOT do this. How do I program the page TO do this. Here's my homepage code:

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<?php
// global variables
require('/var/

http://www/virtualhosts/peas/html/includes/configure.php');

// define page type (home or blocks)
$pageType = &quot;home&quot;;
$siteID = O;

// define block information if applicable
$blockTitle = &quot;Holiday&quot;;

// define home information if applicable
$siteDepartment = O1;
// $siteTitle = 'Merry Christmas';

// start page creation
include(FS_WEB_ROOT.$pageType.&quot;.php&quot;

// BEGIN YOUR CONTENT
?>

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

<?php
// END YOUR CONTENT


// end page creation
include(FS_WEB_ROOT.&quot;includes/&quot;.$pageType.&quot;/footer.php&quot;
?>

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[sleipnir214]

Values passed on the URL are available to PHP scripts in the $_GET superglobal array:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php

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