Keeping the nav bar

[liquidchild]

Does anyone know how to keep the nav bar from reloading all the time, I am not using frames and have designed my site using css and php, but i am not sure if it is possible to have just the new body page load when a link on the navigation menu is pressed. Also have seen many sites that have for example gallery.php?content=1, is this just a switch statement in gallery.php which point to different .php, or .html files, or a link to a database table, or is there something more elegant going on here.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

[raymie]

PHP is a server side language this means that using PHP a web page cannot be changed or altered without a reload.

You will either have to

• Use Frames
• Use an client side language such as JAVA
• Use a tool such as FLASH
• live with the nav bar refreshing

Hope that this helps.

[Scott_J]

You can use a switch statement to keep the navigation and only load in the main part of the page.

This is an example from a bit of work that I've done.....

<?
/

Determine which module to include
and the asociated name

/

                 switch($module){
                 case "emeg":
                   $include_file = 'modules/emeg.php';
                   break;
	case "ukms":
                   $include_file = 'modules/ukms.php';
                   break;
                 default :
                   $include_file = 'modules/default.php';
                   break;
               }

include_once('header.php');
include_once('contents.php');
include_once($include_file);
include_once('footer.php');

?>

Then in your urls you have it as index.php?module=emeg for example.