SWITCH with a $_GET

[sigzero]

I have a url that ends with ?pid=sqlall. I am using the following to
try and get at the "sqlall". I have read many sites to no avail.

switch ($_GET['pid']) {
case 'sqlall':
$page->assign('pagetitle', 'All Users');
$page->assign('tableheader', 'All Users');
$page->assign('sqlfile', 'sql_all.php');
break;
case 'sqlprof':
$page->assign('pagetitle', 'All Users');
$page->assign('tableheader', '» All User Profiles');
$page->assign('sqlfile', 'sql_prof.php');
break;
}

if the url is http://localhost/main.php?pid=sqlall or ?pid=sqlprof then
I want to case to assign. This is in conjuction with Smarty.
Any suggestion would be helpful.

Robert

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

*** si*****@gmail.com escribió/wrote (7 Dec 2004 12:03:21 -0800):

I have a url that ends with ?pid=sqlall. I am using the following to
try and get at the "sqlall". I have read many sites to no avail.

switch ($_GET['pid']) {
case 'sqlall':

So, what's your problem? Have you done any sort of debugging, such us
printing the variables? Is that the URL of current page or some other you
have in a string?

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[sigzero]

Alvaro G. Vicario wrote:

*** si*****@gmail.com escribió/wrote (7 Dec 2004 12:03:21 -0800):

I have a url that ends with ?pid=sqlall. I am using the following to try and get at the "sqlall". I have read many sites to no avail.

switch ($_GET['pid']) {
case 'sqlall':
So, what's your problem? Have you done any sort of debugging, such us
printing the variables? Is that the URL of current page or some other

you have in a string?

I have a "print_r" printing the $_GET. It IS displaying the right
string but my assign statements are not assigning anything. I am
calling the link from a JS using the following format:
"attu.php?pid=sqlall"

I am getting the "sqlall" it does not seem to be processing my assign->
parameters in the switch statement itself.

Robert

[sigzero]

It seems to be the Smarty cache causing the problem. Because I am using
one page name "attu.php" the cache doesn't really see the change when I
do different assigns to it. I turned the Smarty cache off and bingo the
switch statement works.

Robert

[Gary L. Burnore]

On 8 Dec 2004 10:30:27 -0800, si*****@gmail.com wrote:

It seems to be the Smarty cache causing the problem. Because I am using
one page name "attu.php" the cache doesn't really see the change when I
do different assigns to it. I turned the Smarty cache off and bingo the
switch statement works.

It'd still be a bit better to do this:

$pid = $_GET['pid'];

switch ($pid) {
case 'sqlall':

....

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[Daniel Tryba]

Gary L. Burnore <gb******@databasix.com> wrote:

It'd still be a bit better to do this:

$pid = $_GET['pid'];

switch ($pid) {
case 'sqlall':

...

Huh! Why?

[Daniel Tryba]

si*****@gmail.com wrote:

It seems to be the Smarty cache causing the problem. Because I am using
one page name "attu.php" the cache doesn't really see the change when I
do different assigns to it. I turned the Smarty cache off and bingo the
switch statement works.

See the msarty manual how to have multiple caches for 1 page:
http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/cach...ple.caches.php

[Gary L. Burnore]

On 09 Dec 2004 19:12:20 GMT, Daniel Tryba <sp**@tryba.invalid> wrote:

Gary L. Burnore <gb******@databasix.com> wrote:

It'd still be a bit better to do this:

$pid = $_GET['pid'];

switch ($pid) {
case 'sqlall':

...

Huh! Why?

Moving the $_GET stuff in to their own variables is a good habit to
get into for more than one reason. One is less typing on re-use.
It's easier to type $pid more than once rather than typing
$_GET['pid'] more than once for example.

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[Daniel Tryba]

Gary L. Burnore <gb******@databasix.com> wrote:

It'd still be a bit better to do this:

$pid = $_GET['pid'];

switch ($pid) {
case 'sqlall':

...

Huh! Why?

Moving the $_GET stuff in to their own variables is a good habit to
get into for more than one reason. One is less typing on re-use.
It's easier to type $pid more than once rather than typing
$_GET['pid'] more than once for example.

That must be the worst reason I ever heard! Offcourse varriables should
be to the point and descriptive. But that doens't mean shorter is
always better.

But $_GET['pid'] says something extra, like that it came from an
untrustworthy source. Making a raw copy hides that fact, so when $pid is
later used in output there is a chance that correctly escaping will be
forgotten.