Navigation bar maintaining problem

joe2

hi,

we are developing a website of around 2000 pages.We are facing problem in maintaining the navigation bar.

We use windows machine to develop the website and we are hosting our site on linux machine.If we use ssi for navigation links,we will have to change the attribute of every file.i think it would be difficult to change the attribute of every file.

Please suggest ,how can i maintain my navigation bar in easy and technically correct manner.

Thanks.

trexx

do i understand you right? you don't wanna include the navigation on each page? so why don't you try it the other way around?
you have one master-template with the navigation on it and include the content pages there. so you won't have to change a single content-page.

or do you just wanna have an alternative to SSI? then use PHP includes. that will work on windows and linux...

cahva

I dont know if I understood you right but here goes nothing...

Best solution in my opinion is to separate the navigation from the pages.

Make a file named navbar.php (or .htm if its only html). Put the links and stuff in it. Then in every page you need the navigation bar, include it to the page.

<html>
<body>
<?php include('navbar.php'); ?>
...
...

And when you change the navigation and upload it to the server, the changes can be seen in every page with only one modification to navbar.php.

joe2

i want to use my navigation bar on every page.When i add a new channel to my site, then i want to update only one file to update my navigation bar.Maximum files are HTML.
I want alternate of SSI.

trexx

i see, well... use PHP includes (as posted before).

but again: i would not recommend to include the navigation on each page, but to include each page into the navigation! if you have to change your design one day (say because you want to add a 4th level navigation e.g.) you propably have to edit every single one of your 2000 files to add another include...
with my solution you'd only have to edit the master-template.