url stays the same and secure

dieheart567 · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

hi

i have been wondering, if you were making a website with the code,

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:30 am

I did not see where you referenced https:// for security, but the example you gave was mainly dealing with URLs.

If you are wanting the URL to stay the same in the address bar, you would need to use frames (which I would not recommend).

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dieheart567 · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 14

How do i make a https?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:13 am

You point the URL to a secure URL

rsleventhal · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 20

One way to do this, sorta, is to use a reference index.

using PHP and CSS, you could make the site's URLs look something like:

http://www.example.com/index.php?somename

where somename is a pointer to a page called somename.php. The only thing that changes is the reference being passed after the ? character.

Sample code:
[code]
<?php
//
// $page contains the parameter contained in the URL, e.g.
// /mypage.php?somevalue
// $page = somevalue
//
// $pagename is the value used in an include statement which
// is responsible for populating the content are of the website.
// the include populates <div class="contentarea">
//
// this value is built (usually) by appending $page with '.txt'
//

$page = basename( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] );

if ( !$page )
{
header( "Location: index.php" );
}
else // some exceptions to the rule
{
if ( $page == 'search' )
{
$pagename = '/search.php';
header($pagename);
} // the 'rule'
if ( file_exists( 'content/' . $page . '.txt' ) )
{
$pagename = "content/$page" . ".txt";
}
else // what to do if there's a 404
{
$page = "404";
$pagename = "content/404.txt";

}
}

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but I find it a very nice and easy way to limit the amount of server load by only loading nav, header, footer once..the only thing that changes is the content section (<div>) which is called by 'includes' in the main document.

As for secure connections, Corey Bryant's got that answer for you, using SSL (https) calls will do the trick.

HTH,
-Ray