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copied!<p>I've interpreted your question differently to the others.</p> <p>It sounds to me like you want to create a page with two buttons on it and execute one of your two existing PHP files, depending on which button was pressed.</p> <p>If that's right, then here's a simple skeleton to achieve that. In this example, page_1.php and page_2.php are your two existing PHP files.</p> <p>Note if you're doing a lot of this stuff, you probably want to read up on the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern and/or try some of the popular PHP frameworks available. It's beyond the scope of this question, but basically both those things will give you a good foundation for structuring your code so that things stay managable and don't become a mess.</p> <pre><code><?php if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { switch ($_POST['command']) { case 'show_file_1': include 'file_1.php'; break; case 'show_file_2': include 'file_2.php'; break; } exit; } ?> <form method="POST"> <button name="command" value="show_file_1">Show file 1</button> <button name="command" value="show_file_2">Show file 2</button> </form> </code></pre> <p>Note: I've included only the relevant HTML and PHP to illustrate the point. Obviously you'd add <code><html></code>, <code><head></code> and <code><body></code> tags, and likely shuffle and modularize the PHP a bit, depending on what you're going to add.</p> <p>UPDATE: I should also add that if either of your existing PHP files contain forms that POST to themselves, you may want to change the <code>include</code> to a redirect. That is:</p> <pre><code>include 'file_1.php'; </code></pre> <p>would become:</p> <pre><code>header('Location: http://mysite.com/file_1.php'); </code></pre> <p>It's hard to know what to recommend without knowing the nature of your existing files.</p> <p>EDIT: I'm responding to the OP's second post this way because I don't have enough reputation to comment. Which line number do you get the unexpected <code>;</code> error? If I had to guess, I would say check that you're using a <code>:</code> (colon) and not <code>;</code> (semi-colon) at the end of the <code>case 'show_file_1'</code> and <code>case 'show_file_2'</code> lines.</p>

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