Menus and navigation location

Anon

Hi. I have a menu which is included in my pages. The menu is a table. How can i have it dynamically showing somehow the current location. For example, if my page is "downloads" then the cell color in the menu is a different color. I'd like to do these with a variable if possible and not with a switch or if statement.

Thanks

Anon

make an arry of your menu items
$items = array("Home" => "home.php", "Contact" => "contact.php");
set either in your page a variable that identifies the actual page or call the page with index.php?page=Contact
$page = "Contact";
loop through the array and draw table cells, if actual page == current array element do the color stuff

<table>

for ($i = 0; $i < count($items); $i++) {
  if ($page == key($items) {
    $bgcolor = "red";
  } else {
    $bgcolor = "blue";
  }
  echo "<tr><td bgcolor=$bgcolor>text</td></tr>";
}

</table>

Anon

and here is the fixed script ...

<table>
<?
for ($i = 0; $i < count($items); $i++) {
  if ($page == key($items) {
    $bgcolor = "red";
  } else {
    $bgcolor = "blue";
  }
  echo "<tr><td bgcolor=$bgcolor>text</td></tr>";
}
next($items);
?>

</table>

Anon

this dawn drugs... use that :o)

<table>
<?
for ($i = 0; $i < count($items); $i++) {
  if ($page == key($items) {
    $bgcolor = "red";
  } else {
    $bgcolor = "blue";
  }
  echo "<tr><td bgcolor=$bgcolor>text</td></tr>";
next($items);
}
?>

</table>

Anon

Thanks. I'll try it.

John