Question

i have this php pages

index.php

<?php
    include 'viewannouncement.php';
?>

viewannouncement.php

<?php     
          $result = mysql_query("SELECT announcement_date,announcement_title,
          announcement_text FROM sp_announcement") or die(mysql_error());  

        echo "<table id=\"newspaper-b\">";
        echo "<thead>";
        echo "<tr>";
        echo "<th scope=\"col\">Date</th>";
        echo "<th scope=\"col\">Title</th>";
        echo "<th scope=\"col\">Announcement</th>";
        echo "</tr>";
        echo "</thead>";

        while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
                echo "<tr>";
                echo '<td>' . $row['announcement_date'] . '</td>';
                echo '<td>' . $row['announcement_title'] . '</td>';
                echo '<td>' . $row['announcement_text'] . '</td>';
                echo "</tr>"; 
        } 
        echo "</table>";
        echo "<br>";
        echo "<br>";
?>

in index.php it has a tab which includes and views viewannouncement.php, the problem is when i access the subpages manually it leaves a whitescreen, how can i make it redirect to index.php and still be view able via the tabs in index.php

i hope you guys can help me, any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

Typically people set a variable to check if a file was included or not,
Why not do something like this?
In your index file

<?php
$fromIndex = true;
include 'viewannouncement.php';
?>

Then in your file viewannouncement.php, try this at the top.

if(!isset($fromIndex)) {
  header('Location: /index.php');
  die;
}