[Bonzo]

I am using css to create navigation buttons an php for the " include function ". I want the "selected page" button to apear different to the others using a <div>.
This was getting very complicated as I needed a different file to include for every page and if I added yet another page I would have lots of files to alter.

Example

PHP Code:

<div class='button'>

  <a href='main.php'>Home</a>

  <a href='main.php?inc=info'>Information</a>

  <a href='main.php?inc=photo'>Photos</a>

  <a href='main.php?inc=video'>Video</a>

  <div class='seleted'>Contact</div>

</div> 

I then thought about using an array method and have come up with this very rough method.

PHP Code:

$main_array = array ( "Home" => "home", "Information" => "info", "Contact" => "cont", "Photos" => "photo", "Videos" => "vid" );



print("<table><tr>");

foreach($main_array as $main => $link)

print "<td><a href = main.php?inc=".$link.">".$main . "</a>";

print("</tr></table>"); 

But I am back to the same problem with the selected page !!

Can anyone help to get either method working please ( I have $page = home; etc. on every included page so the code knows which page is displayed. )

Anthony

[Bonzo]

I still can not get this to work.

I have tried

PHP Code:

print("<h2>Test 2</h1><br><table border=2><tr>");



foreach($main_array as $mname => $days)

    

if ( $inc == $page ){ print "<td><p>".$mname."</p></td>"; }



else { print "<td><a href = main.php?inc=".$days.">".$mname . "</a>"; }



print("</tr></table><hr>"); 

All this dose is print every link the same using either the if or else depending on the $inc value.

I am then trying

PHP Code:

function selected() {

 if ( $mname[i] == $page ){$mname[i] == 'Wahoo';}

}



for($i=0; $i<count($main_array);$i++){



selected();

   

print "<td><p>".$mname."</p></td>"; } 

But I have no idea where to call the funtion and it dose not seem to have any effect.

$inc is passed in the url and $page is on the included page.

Can someone point me in the right dirrection ?

Anthony

[blaw]

Hello there,

You should check whether $_GET['inc'] is the same as whatever the $link you are looping through with.

From the first post you posted, the foreach loop can be rewritten as follows:

PHP Code:

<?php



foreach($main_array as $main => $link) {

    // All links other than "home" have $_GET['inc'].

    if ($_GET['inc'] == $link || (empty($_GET['inc']) && $link == 'home')) {

        // Matched. this is the "selected" one.

        echo '<td><div class="selected">'.$main.'</div>';

    }

    else {

        // No match. Link.

        // Note that the IIF expression makes sure not to echo "?inc=" for "home".

        echo '<td><a href="main.php'.($link != 'home' ? '?inc='.$link : '').'">'.$main.'</a>';

    }

}



?>

Please read the comments for details. HTH.

[Bonzo]

Thanks for the help blaw; it seems to be working great now; I thought there must be a way of doing it but I had no idea how !

Below is a link to the output - its not working right with my css at the moment & so I will look into that. Site is realy rough as I am still deciding what to do.

Anthony

http://www.rubble.info/tests/new/main.php - As blaw's help

http://www.rubble.info/tests/new/main2.php - The look I am after

P.S. ( Edit ) Layout now sorted; I did not need the <td> in the code as that is sorted in the css.

[Bonzo]

My site was getting to be a real mess and so I am starting from scratch; I have learnt a couple of new things to improve it over the last year !

If you want to see the method I was talking about in this thread; I am going to use it on www.rubble.info but wait for a day or so !!!

Anthony