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This is the source of site, where the menu workes with variables. Every Link gives a parameter over the URL. The variable is $cat.
If I klick on a Link, the variable in the URL changes to "region" or "sport" or anything else. My Problem. The largest Part of the body is dependent to this variable $cat. But the body doesn´t change. The URL changes but nothing else happens.
Could anybody help me. Its very urgent.


if($cat) {
switch($cat) {
case 'region': echo "<img src=\"/grafik/balken/titel_region.gif\"><br><br><br>"; break;
case 'sport': echo "<img src=\"/grafik/balken/titel_sport.gif\"><br>";break;
case 'va': echo "<img src=\"/grafik/balken/titel_va.gif\"><br>";break;


Sorry for my english. I´am from Austria.

You can just do this.
if($cat) {
echo "<img src=\"/grafik/balken/titel_". $cat.".gif\"><br><br><br>";





.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Well, your code appears to be fine... The problem is probably related to how PHP is configured. You didn't specify which version of PHP you have on server, so I'll talk generally. New versions of PHP come with "register_globals" option turned off (security reasons) and as a result parameters from URL won't be converted to variables automatically. If you have PHP version 4.1.0 or higher, replace all occurrences of "$cat" with "$_GET['cat']", otherwise replace all occurrences of "$cat" with "$HTTP_GET_VARS['cat']". Also, if you have any function which uses $cat variable and you have PHP version lower than 4.1.0, you'll need to add "global $HTTP_GET_VARS;" at the top of your function(s)...

This is the source of a friend. What means the switch?????
Is there another option to this If-Case????

I thank. It works. I didn´t knew about the versions.

Documentation for "switch" statement can be found here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

In your case it isn't necessary, because you can use $cat variable by directly outputting it (since your image filenames end with string contained in $cat variable), like in Bitdamaged example from above...