Creating Dynamic Navigation Table

Admin32

Hi there everyone,

I am fairly new to php and while working on a website, I've come across a small problem.

I am trying to combine 3 php files into my index.php in order to create one dynamic page, the first file is the top header.php, the second one is the home.php and the third is the navigation.php.

Creating a dynamic page with the header and home php files is not a problem while I'm using the following code:
...........................................................
<title> Internal Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
require("header.php");
?>
<table width="100%" cellspacing="15" cellpadding="5" border="0">

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

</body>
</html>width="100%" height="29" valign="top">
<?php
if ($c != "") {
include("".$c.".php");
} else {
include("home.php");
}

           ?>
</td>

.......................................................

My question is how can I include the navigation.php so that it is presented on the left hand side of the dynamically created page and right below the header.php ?

Here is what I want to achive:

header

n |
a |
v | home
i |
g |
a |
t |
i |
o |
n |

Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris P.

craigh

just use a table for the whole page.

<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD colspan=2> HEADER </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD> NAVIGATION </TD>
<TD> BODY </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

spirp

first of all, you code looks a bit messy, you've got the body-end tag in the middle of the code and so on.. check you html so that it's working..

anyways.. I guess you want to use a table for that, and that's a simple task if any..

create a table which looks like you described it (a row, with colspan="2", another row with two cells:

<table>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2">include header here</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>include nav here</td>
    <td>include content (home) here</td>
  </tr>
</table>

and that's it 🙂

A good tip though, first design you pages using your favourite tool (notepad, vi, dreamweaver or so), then split the html-code up into the parts you need, add your php and you good to go.. it's rarely a good idea to start with php and then go backwards to the design..

good luck!
Olle

spirp

heh.. always one second to late.. 🙂

Admin32

spirp,

Thank you for your detailed and well explained solution.

Im just implementing it and will let you know if I have futher problems.

Thanks again,

Chris P.

Admin32

Based upon the website's layout, I need to add some smart code in every .php file that will be loaded to ensure that the Header and Navigation php files are also loaded.

Here is the site layout:

Header.php

n |
a |
v |
i |
g | home.php or any other file chosen
a | frrom the menu
t |
i |
o |
n |

If a user typed //192.168.0.1/link.php, then
I need to make sure that links.php, header.php and navigation.php is loaded.

To construct the above table, I am using spirp's code in my index.php:

<html>
<head>
<title>Internal Website</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table width="100%">
<tr>
<td height="21" colspan="2">
<div align="left">
<?php
require("header.php");
?>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="171" height="21" valign="top">
<div align="left">
<?php
require("navigation.php");
?>
</div>
</td>

</html>

Any input would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Pests

This is simple. Is the html for the navigation in header.php?
Just require the navigation inside of the header.

IE:

<table>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
My header!
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
My Navigation!
<?php require "nav.php"; ?>
</td>
<td>

My Content!

</td>
</tr>

And NAV.php looks like this:

Then on one of your pages you do this:

<?php include "header.php"; ?>
My content, blah blah.
<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

Pests

Originally posted by Pests
This is simple. Is the html for the navigation in header.php?
Just require the navigation inside of the header.

IE:

<!---Start header--->
<table>
 <tr>
  <td colspan="2">
          My header!
  </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>
          My Navigation!
          <?php require "nav.php"; ?>
  </td>
  <td>
<!---End header--->
          My Content!
<!---Start footer--->
  </td>
 </tr>
<!---End footer--->

And NAV.php looks like this:

<a href="home.php">home</a>

Then on one of your pages you do this:

<?php include "header.php"; ?>
My content, blah blah.
<?php include "footer.php"; ?>