php problems

[Mr.Orb]

Hi all,
I have been using this script fine up till now, al of a sudden it doesn't seem to be working... I am try to get a php page to appear in anouther php, this is the script:

<?php
if (! file_exists("$page.php"))
{
include("news.php");
}
else
{
include("$page.php");
} ?>

when you click something on the menu bar it sends you to index.php?page=(page name here), eg. to get to the links.php page to appear it would be index.php?page=links

Now all that seems to be happening is news.php is only being displayed, is there any reason for this?
Thanks!

 

[fluiduk]

why do you have $page inside speech marks?

Wouldnt that stop it working?

 

[robmiller]

Your host has turned off register_globals. Add:

$page = $_GET['page'];

to the top of your script. Consider also working in something against recursive includes.

why do you have $page inside speech marks?

Wouldnt that stop it working?

No.

 

[Mr.Orb]

Ah i just tried this

<?
if(!$_GET['id'])
$_GET['id'] = "news";

if(file_exists($_GET['id'].'.php'))
include($_GET['id'].'.php');
else
include("news.php");
?>

Which seems to be working fine (just uses ?id=)... Thanks anyway

 

[Augmented]

As Rob pointed out:

index.php?id=index