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I want to include a menu item on a particular php page on my site. I'm using an include to display the menu (includes-menu.php) on my pages (index.php, page1.php etc.).

PHP Code:

<?php 

include "../includes-menu.php";

?>

If the user is at page3.php, I want to add an extra menu item. I imagine the code will need to check to see the name of the current page and if it is not page3.php it won't include the additional code, if it is, then it will display the code.

Should the additional code be hard coded inside an "if" statement" or as a further include in the "if" statement? (an include in an include?)

How can I achieve this please?

[shadi]

PHP Code:

 
$Path = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]; // returns the current path such /www/page3.php
 
$path_array = explode("/",$Path); // splits the path using ( / ) 
                                         // if the path was /www/page3.php
                                         // after spliting it will be array of 2 elements
                                        // array ('www','page3.php')
 
 
if( in_array("page3.php",$path_array) ) // we will use the in_array() to see if                                      //page3.php is an element of the the array or not
{
    include "page3_menu.php";
} 

[CutAndPaste]

shadi,

Thanks for your quick reply, I'll give it a go.

If I wanted to specify a number of other pages to also show the extra menu item on, would I do something like this?

PHP Code:

if( in_array("page3.php","page4.php","page4.php",$path_array) ) 

Thanks,

Simon

[Keith]

You can just use basename();

PHP Code:

<?php



$filename = basename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '.php');



if ($filename == 'page3')

include 'page3_menu.php';



?>

Or multiple pages:

PHP Code:

if (eregi('page3|page4|page5', $filename))

include 'page3_menu.php'; 

[liljoeyjordison]

Probably the least usefull, but the shortest
<?php
$showExtraStuff = true;

include ("../includes-menu.php");
?>
Then on the other page use
<?php
if ($showExtraStuff == true) {
echo" STUFF " ; } ;
?>

[maddog39]

If this is just suppoed to be an auto-updating PHP navigation than heres mine.

PHP Code:

<?php

$page = @$_GET['page'];

if ((isset($page)) && (file_exists($page . ".php"))) {

   include($page . ".php");

} else {

   echo "Page does not exist.";

   exit();

}

?>

[CutAndPaste]

Thanks for all of the replies!

So many ways to skin the rabbit!

Cheers,
Simon

[CutAndPaste]

Thanks for all of the tips here guys!

As a further aid to my learning, how would you do it if you wanted to show the include on ALL pages EXCEPT one named page?

This is like a "If something IS NOT true" then do something, rather than a "If something IS true" then do something as the above examples show.

Thanks,

[Keith]

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_operators.asp

[CutAndPaste]

Great, thanks!

It's a great help when you know where to look for the answers. I've bookmarked the site for extensive further reading!

Cheers,

Simon