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Rien
Rien

Reputation: 458

PHP automated GET statement to retrieve content

I have a menu which creates a GET statement in the url <li><a href="?Page=Contact">Contact</a>. This get is used to get the corresponding content. As in, the url will look like ?Page=Contact and than it will load the content from Contact.

Now in another file i have a switch that checks the GET statement in the url.

$GetStatement = $ConfigPage->getFormVariable('Page');

switch ($GetStatement){
    case "Home":
        $Content = new ContentHome();
        $ConfigPage->SetProperty('content', $Content);
        break;

    case "Contact":
        $Content = new ContentContact();
        $ConfigPage->SetProperty('content', $Content);
        break;
}

Of course there are more cases in this switch, but it's useless to show. Now this switch works flawless. But as my content grows i have to keep adding more cases. And now i am at the point i want this to be automated. Of course i have tried to. but now i have literally no idea how to do this, or what to do.

Edit:

All the different content are in different files. With all unique class name. as you can see above. ContentContact is inside file Contact.php with a class named ContentContact

Upvotes: 0

Views: 79

Answers (2)

agrafix
agrafix

Reputation: 775

Something like this could do the trick:

function getContentInstance($stmt) {
   $name = 'Content'.$stmt;
   $path = 'Content/'.str_replace(".", "", $name).'.class.php'; // needs to do even more ...
   if(class_exists($name) {
      return new $name();
   } else {
      if (file_exists($path)) {
         include $path;
         return new $name();
      }
      user_error('Class '.$name.' not found');
   }
}

Upvotes: 0

Machavity
Machavity

Reputation: 31634

While that's not a very efficient setup (I don't know that I would create one class per page) what you could do is create a function that would do the work of looking for your class for you

function loadClass($name) {
    $class_name = 'Content' . $name;
    if(!class_exists($class_name)) return false;
    $class = new $class_name();
    return $class;
}

$class = loadClass($ConfigPage->getFormVariable('Page'));
if($class) $ConfigPage->SetProperty('content', $class);

Upvotes: 3

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