[Bonzo]

This is irritating as it was working and has now stopped; I must have changed something and dont know what.

Please can you help; Anthony

I am passing a variable in the URL "content_var"

if ($content_var == "")
{
$content_var = 'main';
}

echo "$ content_var =",$content_var;

include ($content_var);

This should check to see if "content_var" has a value and if not use main BUT it uses main every time.

I also have a bit of css problem as well but here is the page http://209.50.240.86/css/main.php

[NeverMind]

in this code you provided, you are only giving $content_var main as a value !
I suppose you want to get the var from $_GET[] arrays..

so you could make it like this :

PHP Code:

if (!isset($_GET['content_var'] or $_GET['content_var'] == '')

{

$content_var = 'main';

} else {

$content_var = $_GET['content_var'];

}



//to check if it's working

echo '$content_var ='.$content_var;



include_once($content_var); 

[Bonzo]

Thanks for the reply NeverMind, although I do not think I explained my problem very well.

I have spent about 5 hours changing everything I can think and adding echo statements all over the place trying to sort this !!

The outcome is that I changed my mind how I was going about this page and started off with session_register('content_var'); I decided not to use this in the end but kept the variable name content_var and did not remove session_register('content_var'); from the page !!!!!!!!
So what I think was happening was I was passing the variable in the URL but this was being overridden by the session variable that was blank.

Anthony