Need help with active menu

Anon

Hi. I posted a similar question before but i didn't get any answers, so sorry for insisting but i need help 🙂

I have a menu in a table (each item in a different cell). How can i have that cell in a different color when is on that page. For example my page is "main.php?show=download".
I want to highlight the "download" cell in the menu in another color.
With switch, i'm using as cases all the menu items. How can i use 2 variables $bg_off and $bg_on so that all the other cells are using $bg_off.
Currently my menu is not generated dynamically. It's classic html. Do i need an array?

Thanks.

ianholmes01

The function below receives a variable open (an integer relating to one of the menu items)

Generated from either an additional piece of query string or a switch statement to determine the page called and applying the appropriate integer to it.

function getnavclass($open)
{
//intialise $class array for nav bar
for ($i = 1; $i < 8; ++$i)
{
$class[$i] = "class=\"bgoff\"";
}
//set
$class[$open] = "class=\"bgon\"";
}

then each td would be

where x is a number between 1 and the max number of nav elements in this case 8 - this can be done on line at a time or in a for loop.

Ian

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Anon

Thanks Ian but i'd appreciate a little more help. Suppose that menu.inc is the following code :

How do i implement your code into this?

Thanks.

John

ianholmes01

<?php
Function my_function($open)
{
as before
return $class
}

get value for $open (swicth of $show case "page1" $open = 1 etc)

$class = my_fucntion($open)
?>
<tr>
<td class="<?=$class[1]?>"><a href="link.php?show=page1">page1</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="<?=$class[2]?>"><a href="link.php?show=page2">page2</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="<?=$class[3]?>"><a href="link.php?show=page3">page3</a></td>
</tr>

you will obviously need to set up a style sheet to deterine what happens when bgon and bgoff are echod in the class="<?=$class[x];?>" statement - for help on stylesheets

http://www.devshed.com/Client_Side/Style_Sheets

ian

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ianholmes01

eratum

in my orgianl code i assiged the elements of the $class array as full class="x" string but in my second example I assumed only the x part was assigned so you will need to modify the code to use one or the other

sorry

Anon

Thanks a lot Ian.

John