php navbar

OLDoMiNiON

why does this not work?:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!-- W3C Validated HTML 4.01 -->
<html>
<head>
<title>l™l OLDo's eSsEnTialS l™l</title>
<!-- Start Page Icon -->
<LINK href="pics/icon.gif" rel="SHORTCUT ICON">
<!-- End Page Icon>
<!-- Start Breadcrumb Navigation Script-->
	<SCRIPT language=Javascript type=text/javascript>
		<!--
		// This Deletes any existing cookie

	if (document.cookie != "") {
	thisCookie = document.cookie.split("; ")
    	expireDate = new Date
    	expireDate.setDate(expireDate.getDate()-1)

    	for (i=0; i< thisCookie.length; i++) {
    	        cookieName = thisCookie[i].split("crumb")[0]
    	        document.cookie = cookieName + "=;expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString()

        	}
    	}

	//this adds the new cookie

	expireDate = new Date
	expireDate.setMonth(expireDate.getMonth()+6)

	title = ""
	if (document.cookie != "") {
	title	 = document.cookie.split("=")[1]
	}

	function setCookie() {
	title = document.title
		document.cookie = "title="+title+";expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString()
	}
	// -->
</SCRIPT>
<!-- End Breadcrumb Navigation Script-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<LINK href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#666666">

<table width="750px" border="0" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000000">
		<img src="pics/titlebar.jpg">
	</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table width="750px" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000000">
	<!-- Begin Breadcrumb Navigation -->
	<DIV>
        <SCRIPT language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
     		<!--
     		document.write("&nbsp;<a href='index.php' class='bc'>Home</a>");
     		// -->
  		</SCRIPT>
     </DIV>
	<!-- End Breadcrumb Navigation -->
	</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table align="center" width="750px" border="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td width="30px" bgcolor="#000000">
	 <br>
        <div class="nav"> <a href="index.php" onMouseDown="
		<?php
		$menuoption = 'home';
        ?>"><img src="pics/home.gif" alt="Home" border="0"></a>
		<br><br>
        <a href="index.php" onMouseDown="
		<?php
		$menuoption = 'rules';
		?>"><img src="pics/rules.gif" alt="Rules" border="0"></a>
		<br><br>
        <img src="pics/ops.gif" alt="Operators" border="0"> <br>
        <br>
        <img src="pics/idea.gif" alt="Ideas" border="0"> <br>
        <br>
        <img src="pics/links.gif" alt="Links" border="0"> <br>
        <br>
        <img src="pics/leg.gif" alt="Legal Info" border="0"> <br>
        <br>
		</div>
	 <br><br>
	</td>
    <td width="650px" bgcolor="#000000" background="">
     <?php
	 if ($menuoption = 'home') {
	 include 'home.php';
     }
     elseif ($menuoption = 'rules') {
	 include 'rules.php';
	 }
	 ?>
	</td>
    <td width="70px" bgcolor="#000000">

</td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

i'm new to this so please don't slay me! 🙂
cheers,
OLDo

Rohan_Hill

Please explain your problem more clearly. Is it giving you an error? If so, what?

OLDoMiNiON

heh, yeah, sorry!

ok, ignore the javascript, iknow that is not right, i just copied it in 4 now, gonna change it later 🙂

the PHP however does not work..
i wish to be able to click on one of the icons (i.e. home.gif) and get it to reload the page with different content in the middle cell!
however the method i've chosen obviously doesn't work..

need more info?

thanx again
Chris

daphreeek

        <a href="index.php" onMouseDown="
        <?php
        $menuoption = 'rules';
        ?>">

The above code will give the exact same thing as the below code:

<a href="index.php">

What you need is something like the following: (obviously lay it out a bit nicer tho 🙂)

Name your "page" variable in the links to the exact name of your file (minus the .php extension) then you could also do this:

<!-- NAV LINKS -->
<a href="index.php">Home</a>
<br><a href="index.php?page=section1">Section 1</a>
<br><a href="index.php?page=section2">Section 2</a>
<br><a href="index.php?page=links">Links</a>
<br><a href="index.php?page=guestbook">Guestbook</a>

<!-- END NAV LINKS -->

<?php
if (file_exists($page.".php") && $page != "") {
     include($page.".php");
}else{
     include("home.php");
}
?>

The reason that the home page is last is so that if someone goes to "index.php?page=someotherpage" then they will be sent to your home page so you dont loose a visitor 🙂

Matt

p.s I haven't tested that code so there may be a few small spelling errors.

OLDoMiNiON

thanx mate! quick response! 🙂
however i now get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /hdc6/domains/site138/public_html/essentialsets/test/index.php on line 103

line 103 says:

103        if(file_exists($page.".php") && $page != "")  {

OLDoMiNiON

ok, a friend helped me figure it out, it works now 🙂
thanx for all your help!