Creating Buttons using Code??

smp

Hi,

I am building a web site using Oracle and PHP. All of the information for the site is stored in the databasem including the navigation menu categories. The idea being that anyone can add info or new items to the menu without having to do any web design or programming...everything is done through the database.

My problem is that I need to be able to generate graphical buttons through some sort of code (database or on a CSS). When a new item is added in the database, it should also be added to the web page as a new button on the navigation bar. I was hoping someone might be able to give me some idea of the code that could be used to do this??

Thanks

Thora_Fan

Depends, do you mean graphical as in actually creating jpg/gif's or graphical as in some fancy pants CSS? I would suggest CSS as it's probably a bit easier.

smp

Either way would be fine, as long as they look nice..not just plan text...

do you have any ideas?? I would appreciate the help

Thora_Fan

Yes, my suggestion is to do something like so:

<html>
<head>
<style>
body{font-family:arial;}

table{font-size:80%;background:black}

a{color:black;text-decoration:none;font:bold}

a:hover{color:#606060}

td.menu{background:lightblue}
tr.menuBGColor { background: #f0e68c; }
table.menu
{
font-size:100%;
position:absolute;
visibility:hidden;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showmenu(elmnt)
{
document.all(elmnt).style.visibility="visible"
}

function hidemenu(elmnt)
{
document.all(elmnt).style.visibility="hidden"
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<?php

echo "<table width=\"100%\">\r<tr class=\"menuBGColor\">\r";
echo "<td onmouseover=\"showmenu('$FieldName')\" onmouseout=\"hidemenu('$FieldName')\">$FieldName<br>\r";
echo "<table class=\"menu\" id=\"$FieldName\" width=\"100%\">\r";

$SQL = "SELECT linkURL, linkText FROM table";
$myResult = mysql_query($SQL, $db);

while(list($linkURL, $linkText) = mysql_fetch_array($myResult))
{
	echo "<tr><td class=\"menu\"><a href=\"../html\">$urlLink</a></td></tr>\r";
}
echo "</table>\r</td>\r</tr>\r</table>\r";
?>

This is a VERY bastardized version of a DHTML menu found on
http://www.w3schools.com/dhtml/tryit.asp?filename=trydhtml_menu10

I realize this is a bit messy, but I hope you get the idea.