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terryboxer

I've figured out my own way to load dynamic content with PHP and it works fairly well. I just want to know how I can stop the page from 'flashing white' each time the content is changed. Feel free to suggest any ways how I could do this better.

Here's a snippet:

<?php
if(empty($_GET)){
include ('subcontent/home.php');
include ('content/home.php');
}
else if ($_GET ['content'] == 'home'){
include ('subcontent/home.php');
include ('content/home.php');
}
else if ($_GET ['content'] == 'webdev'){
include ('subcontent/webdev.php');
include ('content/webdev.php');
}
else if ($_GET ['content'] == 'software'){
include ('subcontent/software.php');
include ('content/software.php');
}
else if ($_GET ['content'] == 'websites'){
include ('subcontent/websites.php');
include ('content/websites.php');
}
else if (!empty($_GET) ){
include ('error.php');
header( 'refresh: 6; url=index.php');
}
?>

traq

when you describe "flashing white" I suspect you're just seeing the page reload. You could set it up to joad via AJAX (don't reload the page; just get new content). I know Chris has an AJAX demo (or maybe blog entry) somewhere.

tangent - you current code would benefit from the switch statement:

<?php
    switch( @$_GET['content'] ){
        case 'webdev':
            include ('subcontent/webdev.php');
            include ('content/webdev.php');
            break;
        case 'software':
            include ('subcontent/software.php');
            include ('content/software.php');
            break;
        case 'websites':
            include ('subcontent/websites.php');
            include ('content/websites.php');
            break;
        default:
            include ('subcontent/home.php');
            include ('content/home.php');
            break;
    }

treehouse : what would you like to learn today?

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