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Ok so I wrote a little script that allows me to call information from my database. Basicly this.

<table>
<tr>
<td id="seal"><?php
include("sql.php");
echo "$websiteaddress";
?></td></tr>
</table>

All this does is connects to the sql file echoing the users website address thus I type in mywebsite.com/index.php?name=aname and it returns their name now it also connects to a css file to display an image.

What I want to be able to do is display a different image depending on the url such as mywebsite.com/index.php?name=aname=red or mywebsite.com/index.php?name=aname=blue and it displays a red or blue image depending.

I thought about trying else elseif but can seem to get it to work.

How would I go about doing this? Any help would be appreciated. Please remember I am still learning so take it easy on me and if possible post the code for examples so I can try it and better understand the idea and concept.

Thank you.

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Member Avatar for network18

It seems that, its the code in sql.php which is working for it.
You need to post that script here.

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What I want to be able to do is display a different image depending on the url such as mywebsite.com/index.php?name=aname=red or mywebsite.com/index.php?name=aname=blue and it displays a red or blue image depending.

You would have to supply two variables in the URL, then use $_GET. I do this same thing, only with PDF or xls files:

Code that sets the vars:

<?php

$excel_icon = "<IMG SRC='/images/misc/excel_48.png' ALT='Excel Icon' WIDTH='48' HEIGHT='48' BORDER='0'>";
$pdf_icon = "<IMG SRC='/images/misc/pdf_48.png' ALT='PDF Icon' WIDTH='48' HEIGHT='48' BORDER='0'>";
$prefix = "/protected-folder/secret/getfile.php?";

switch ($row_files['pdf-xls-files'])
{
    case '12':
        $pdfFile = "pdffile=12.pdf";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$pdfFile."'>$pdf_icon</A>";
	break;
    case '15':
	$pdfFile = "pdffile=15.pdf";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$pdfFile."'>$pdf_icon</A>";
	break;
    case '18':
	$pdfFile = "pdffile=18.pdf";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$pdfFile."'>$pdf_icon</A>";
	break;
    default:
	$pdfFile = "pdffile=12.pdf";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$pdfFile."'>$pdf_icon</A>";
	break;										
}
?>
</td>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<?php
switch ($row_files['pdf-xls-files'])
{
    case '12':
	$xlsFile = "xlsfile=12.xls";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$xlsFile."'>$excel_icon</A>";
	break;
    case '15':
	$xlsFile = "xlsfile=15.xls";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$xlsFile."'>$excel_icon</A>";
	break;
    case '18':
	$xlsFile = "xlsfile=18.xls";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$xlsFile."'>$excel_icon</A>";
	break;
    default:
	$xlsFile = "xlsfile=default.xls";
	echo "<A HREF='".$prefix.$xlsFile."'>$excel_icon</A>";
	break;										
}
?>

Script that displays the files:

<?php

require_once("../../includes/protected-folder/_session_vars.php");

$folder = "plfiles/";
$pdfFile = $_GET['pdffile'];
$xlsFile = $_GET['xlsfile'];
$rURL_long = "http://www.domain.com/protected-folder/secret/index.php";
$rURL_short = "http://www.domain.com/protected-folder/secret/";
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];


if (!isset($pdfFile) && !isset($xlsFile)) {
	header("Location: index.php");
	exit();
}

if ($ref != $rURL_long && $ref != $rURL_short) {
	header("Location: index.php");
	exit();
}

if (isset($pdfFile)) {
	$file = $folder.$pdfFile;
	header("Content-type: application/pdf");
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file);
	header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
	header("Cache-Control: pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0");
	header("Cache-Control: private");
	readfile($file);
	break;
}
else if (isset($xlsFile)) {
	$file = $folder.$xlsFile;
	header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
	header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$file);
	header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
	header("Cache-Control: pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0");
	header("Cache-Control: private");
	readfile($file);
	break;
}
else {
	die("An error has occured while getting the requested file.  Please notify the website owner. Error: getfile-both=True");
}

exit();
?>

I imagine that this same concept can be applied to display an image or CSS file based on URL vars using $_GET.

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