How to use a single Index.php file for many pages

Question

Iam making an app which has one index.php file. I also have these other pages:

contact_form_homepage.php 
contact_form_config.php 
contact_form_doc.php 
contact_form_stats.php 
contact_form_premium.php 

Iam looking for a way I can have all the pages linked to the index.php such that whenever a user clicks Home it takes him to contact_form_homepage.php and whenever he clicks Config it takes him to contact_form_config.php and so on and forth

ie

<a href="http://apps.facebook.com/mtkenya-dev/index.php?p=contact_form_config&amp;tab=contact_form_config&amp;page_id=" title="contact_form_config" class="fbtab">Configuration</a>

Which php magic should I use? Kindly help

Answer 1

My usual technique is to include a php module. I usually put mine in site/ action .php

You can see this at line 105 of the standard index.php from my framework.

// get the action
$ac=get_from_get('p');
$ua = "";
$is_mvc = 0;

// if no action specified this is the default action.
if ($ac=="")
    $ac="login";

// attempt include the PHP for the action
$file = "site/$ac.php";
if (file_exists($file))
    include($file);
else
{
    header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
    exit;
}

Answer 2

Simply do a link like you said above...

<a href="http://apps.facebook.com/mtkenya-dev/index.php?p=contact_form_config&amp;tab=contact_form_config&amp;page_id=2" title="contact_form_config" class="fbtab">Configuration</a>

Then you can read the page_id variable in php code with...

if($_GET['page_id'] == 2) {
header("Location: contact_form_config.php");
}

Answer 3

You can do one thing, depending on the query string paramter like "p=contact_form_config", you can load appropriate page in index.php file.

dg for when query string parameter is p=contact_form_config then you can use the below code

if($_GET['p'] == "contact_form_config ")
{
    // you can load your page now
    include_once('contact_form_config.php');
}

Hope this will be helpful :)