IF Statement Help Dependent on URL

[andy20]

Hello,

I'm trying to display content on the page dependent on what the URL states. I'm pretty new to PHP as I used to develop in Coldfusion and it could be done.

Basically I want the following:

IF URL = http://www.mysite.com/thepage.php

Then display this.. Hello

ELSE

Display this... Bye


Sorry for showing the example in such a crude format but just wanted to get my point across.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Andy

[Dormilich]

to get the URL use the $_SERVER variable

$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
// or
$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
// or
$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/' . $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];

of cause you can also use parts of the url, so that the if statement becomes simpler

[Markus]

Well, technically, if the script 'thepage.php' is being run, you know that http://host/thepage.php must be the location. Unless you're using URL rewrites, of course (and possibly other things).

[TheServant]

When you say dependent on what the URL states, do you mean page requested? You can use mod_rewrite to send all requests to a master page which will work out which page was requested and display info. accordingly... Is that what you were after?