Help! with if varible is not present

[Mac Write]

I am still new to PHP, and to tied me over until the Jelsoft CMS comes out, I want to implement a PHP Template to make publishing articles easier.

I want to use the index.php of the folder for a article series to handle the index of articles if someone just calls that file or if they call it via /articleseries/?article=file-name then to display the article.

I have a section of code which calls the article varible from the URL

<?php Virtual("$article.txt"); ?>

etc. But if someone just goes to the index page instad without entering an article ID.

So what am I missing?

<?php if (!article=); {

and then after the article code

<?php } else {

which will display the index of articles instead.

Also how do I do a loop, so it will get the $title varible from the included article to display in the title bar?

Thanks.

[Mac Write]

I don't get it

I just did

<?php if ($article) { ?>

and it worked. I thought I tried that

but how do I do a loop, so that it will grab the $title varible from the include for the article?

[megahard]

if (isset($article){
include "$article.txt";}
else{
...;}

is that wot u mean?

where is $title coming into it?

[Scott MacVicar]

try

<?
if(file_exists("./$article.txt")) {
  virtual("./$article.txt");
}
?>

[Mark Hensler]

Be very carefull when you include files specified via GET or POST.