navigation help

[Devil_Inc]

ok here it is, i have 2 bits of code i want to work in conjunction with each other, one being the site navigation code & the code of another script, il go more into detail:

SITE WIDE CODE:

        <?php
if (isset($_GET['page']) && isset($_GET['id']) && file_exists('mods/'.$_GET[id].'/'.$_GET[page].'.php')) {
include 'mods/'.$_GET[id].'/'.$_GET[page].'.php';
}
else {
include "mods/main.php";
}
?>

script code:

switch($_GET['action'])
{

    case "addtutorial":

    if(!isset($_POST['add_tutorial']))
    {
        echo "
        <table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='500'>
        <form action='$self?action=addtutorial' method='post'>
            <tr>
                <td>Name:</td>
                <td><input type='text' name='name'></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Title:</td>
                <td><input type='text' name='title'></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Category:</td>
                <td>
                    <select name='category'>
                        ";
                $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tutorials_categorys ORDER BY id ASC") or die(mysql_error());
                while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
                {
                    echo "<option value='$row[id]'>$row[category]";
                }
                        echo "
                    </select>
                </td>
            </tr>
                <tr>
                <td>Tutorial:</td>
                <td><textarea name='tutorial' cols='40' rows='10'></textarea></td>
            </tr>
            </tr>
                <tr>
                <td>Short Description:</td>
                <td><textarea name='short_description' cols='40' rows='2'></textarea></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Email:</td>
                <td><input type='text' name='email' maxlength='50'></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Show Email?</td>
                <td><input type='checkbox' name='show_email' value='1' checked></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan='2'><center><input type='submit' name='add_tutorial' value='Submit New Tutorial'></center></td>
            </tr>
        </form>
        </table>
        ";
    }
    elseif(isset($_POST['add_tutorial']))
    {
        $name = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['name']));
        $title = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['title']));
        $category = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['category']));
        $tutorial = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['tutorial']));
        $short_description = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['short_description']));
        $email = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['email']));
        $show_email = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['show_email']);
        $date = date("m/d/Y");
        $time = time();

        $error_msg = array();
        if(empty($name))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert a name!<br />";
        }
        if(empty($title))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert a title!<br />";
        }
        if(empty($category))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert a category!<br />";
        }
        if(empty($tutorial))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert the tutorial text!<br />";
        }
        if(empty($short_description))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert a short description!<br />";
        }
        if(empty($email))
        {
            $error_msg[] = "Please insert an email!<br />";
        }
        if(count($error_msg)>0)
        {
            echo "<strong>ERROR:</strong><br>n";
            foreach($error_msg as $err)
                echo "$err";
        }
        else
        {
            $sql = "INSERT INTO tutorials (submitter, text, short_description, title, cat_id, date_submitted, time_submitted, show_email, email, is_validated) VALUES ('$name', '$tutorial', '$short_description', '$title', '$category', '$date', '$time', '$show_email', '$email', '0')";
            mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
            echo "Tutorial added for review!";
        }
    }
    break;

    case "viewcategory":
    if($_GET['id'])
    {

        $id = (int)$_GET['id'];
        $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tutorials WHERE cat_id = '$id' AND is_validated = '1'") or die(mysql_error());

        if(mysql_num_rows($query) == 0)
        {
            echo "No tutorials for this category yet!";
        }
        else
        {
            echo "<h1>Tutorials</h1>";
            echo "<table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='500'>";
            while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
            {
                echo "
                    <tr>
                        <td>Title:</td>
                        <td><b>$row[title]</b></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>Date Submitted:</td>
                        <td><b>$row[date_submitted]</b></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>Views:</td>
                        <td>$row[views]</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>Short Description:</td>
                        <td>$row[short_description]</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>Submitter:</td>
                        <td>$row[submitter]</td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td colspan='2'><center><b><a href='$self?action=viewtutorial&id=$row[id]'>View</a></b></center></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td colspan='2'><hr /></td>
                    </tr>
                ";
            }
            echo "</table>";
        }
    }
    else
    {
        echo "Please give me a category ID!";
    }
    break;

    case "viewtutorial":

ETC..... 

any help guys?
this is what the url should look like when finished:

?id=t&page=tutorials&action=viewcategory&id=1

PM me for both full codes.

[Zegg90]

I'm sorry, but you haven't stated a problem, so I dunno how I can help you.

[Devil_Inc]

domain.com?id=t&page=tutorials&action=viewcategory &id=1

it wont pass in that url, instead it gives me

domain.com/?action=viewcategory&id=1

and the page halts

[Zegg90]

well, in the second part of your code it says:

<a href='$self?action=viewtutorial&id=$row[id]'>View</a> 

So it links to ?action=viewtutorial&id=1

If you want to change it to ?id=t&page=tutorials&action=viewcategory&id=1, you've got a problem, because it's got 'id' in that twice :P
I suppose you're trying to make it into this:
?action=viewtutorial&id=1&page=tutorials
Try replacing the code I posted above into this:

<a href='$self?action=viewtutorial&page=tutorials&id=$row[id]'>View</a> 

I'm actually quite confused by all this. You use the words 'tutorial' and 'category' interchangeably, so I'm not sure which one you want to link to. I'm guessing the tutorials.
Second, I'm not exactly sure how you want the link to look like. In your example you use 'id' twice, and you display the 'page' variable as simply 'tutorials'. But in the first part of the script it uses 'page' as a real variable. If you want it to stay 'tutorials', why not just hard code that? So in my solution, I kept it as 'tutorials'. If you want to use the title of the article, change it to $row[title]

[Devil_Inc]

ok i figured it out, i changed the first get id to module & this link worked, just needed a nudge from zegg in the right direction

?module=t&page=tutorials&action=viewtutorial&id=1 

now i have a new question, is their anyway to use php navigation in iframes so as to not stretch the layout if the content is too much so it can use a scroller?

i tried

<iframe 
src ="<?php
if (isset($_GET['page']) && isset($_GET['module']) && file_exists('mods/'.$_GET[module].'/'.$_GET[page].'.php')) {
include 'mods/'.$_GET[module].'/'.$_GET[page].'.php';
}
else {
include "mods/main.php";
}
?>"
width="100%">
</iframe>

but it didnt work, any ideas?

[Zegg90]

You could include it inside a <div>.
Then you use CSS to set its overflow property. You should set it to 'auto' so that it will automatically show a scrollbar if the content is too big. Also remember to set the size of the div.

More about Overflow: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp

[Devil_Inc]

dammit ur a genius! thanks