sounds like you're wanting to do this :
// get mode from url or preferences or somewhere
$mode = strtolower($HTTP_GET_VARS['mode']);
if ($mode == 'text') {
include 'txt_template.php';
} else {
include 'img_template.php';
}
include 'content_page.html';
now :
index.php?mode=text // loads text template
index.php ... // anything else loads img template
regarding friendly search-engine pages, have a look at these two tutorials :
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3
http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/searchengine.php
also, consider sending 'lynx' users to your text templatized pages ;-) and
fyi, the above if/else can be written as follows (ternary conditional
operator) :
include ($mode == 'text') ? 'txt_template.php' : 'img_template.php';
regards,
philip
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> I'm trying to figure out what's the best way to do something that
> may be simple, however I can't for the life of me envision it.
>
> I want to have three files as follows:
>
> [ NOTE: I may be thinking of this the wrong way (by thinking up
> three files.) If someone has a better suggestion, please speak
> up! I'm willing to entertain other solutions. ]
>
> -> img_template.php (which contains the full, graphical
> website page, except for the content)
> -> txt_template.php (which contains the full page, without
> any of the bells and whistles, graphics
> javascript and all)
> -> content_page.html (which is the actual content)
>
> This is where I get stuck. What to do? To me, the easiest seems
> to be one single (control) file for the whole site, which then loads
> up the content based on the URI. For example:
>
> http://our.web.site/index.php?page_to_load
> - this will grab the img_template.php file, then
> - fetch 'page_to_load.html' and insert it into the template
> and serve it.
>
> However, will this pose a problem for search engines? Or for
> anything else? I don't know. Anyone?
>
> Now, we would also like to have the whole site be in text format
> (really a slimmed down page without all the graphics, roll-overs, easy
> to print and such).
>
> I'm thinking, add another variable:
>
> http://our.web.site/index.php?page_to_load&format=text
>
> or: http://our.web.site/index.php?page_to_load&format=graphic
>
> But again, how will search engines handle this?
>
> And, I would also have to be able to dynamically update any anchor
> links that show up in the content so it knows what it needs to link to
> in terms of format. Somewhat stupid to have someone click on a
> 'text only' link, and when following another link from that it drops
> back to a graphic based page.
>
>
> Call for comments. Suggestions. A blow to the head. Something.
> I'd like to make this so that future site re-designs won't be as
> painful as this one is turning out to be (currently all 500+ pages of
> the site have everything hard coded, so changing something in say a
> menu causes a real problem).
>
> And yes, I've looked at FastTemplates and I'm, uh, somewhat lost,
> but that may be because I haven't really spent a whole lot of time
> reading up on it. Also, the stuff on there dates back to 1999 - has
> it not been updated recently? Or did it not need any?
>
> AMK4
>
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