having trouble with navigation

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

I'm having a problem with the navigation on the site I'm working on. Everytime I click on the link I get page not found and in the address bar of my browser this shows " http://www.somedomain.com/test2/<?php%20echo%20$PHP_SELF%20?>?main=page6 "

here's the coding for the menu.php

<?php
echo '
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page1">page1</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page2">page2</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page3">page3</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page4">page4</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page5">page5</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page6">page6</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page7">page7</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page8">page8</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page9">page9</a><br />

<a href="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page10">page10</a><br />';

?>

and this part is in the body.php that deals with the navigation

    $main = (isset($_GET['main']))? $_GET['main'] : "main";

function storeCategory(){
  $mainContent = array(
    if($show == 0) { include "page1.php"; },
    if($show == 1) { include "page2.php"; },
    if($show == 2) { include "page3.php"; },
    if($show == 3) { include "page4.php"; },
    if($show == 4) { include "page5.php"; },
    if($show == 5) { include "page6.php"; },
    if($show == 6) { include "page7.php"; },
    if($show == 7) { include "page8.php"; },
    if($show == 8) { include "page9.php"; },
    if($show == 9) { include "page10.php"; },
);
	 return $category;
}

function getContent($id){
  $content = storeCategory();
   for($x=0; $x<sizeof($content); $x++){
      if (rtrim(ltrim($content[$x]["id"])) == $id){
         $print_content = rtrim(ltrim($content[$x]["page"]));
}
   return $print_content;
}

   switch ($x){
     case "page2":
       include ('page2.php');
       break;
     case "page3":
       include ('page3.php');
       break;
     case "page4":
       include ('page4.php');
       break;
     case "page5":
       include ('page5.php');
       break;
     case "page6":
       include ('page6.php');
       break;
     case "page7":
       include ('page7.php');
       break;
     case "page8":
       include ('page8.php');
       break;
     case "page9":
       include ('page9.php');
       break;
     case "page10":
       include ('page10.php');
       break;
    default:
       include ('page1.php');
  }
}

I just can't figure out if it's a typo somewhere that I'm overlooking or what. Or did I get my coding wrong? for the navigation part?

[LordShryku]

Already in php. No need to call the php tags for the links.

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

so would I just need to rewrite my menu.php script. If so how would I create the refernce to the different pages in the menu area. I know the answer is starring right at me in the eyes, but I'm not seeing it at this time. Would I need to move the section that deals with the navigation in the body.php into the menu.php? Just leave the

$main = (isset($_GET['main']))? $_GET['main'] : "main";

in the body.php?

[LordShryku]

Should be staring at you :p

Look:

<?php // you start php here
echo '
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="<?php //no need to re-call it here

echo $PHP_SELF ?>?main=page1">page1</a><br />

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

omg I now feel like a newb now. even though I am a newb. thanxs LordShryku

[LordShryku]

No prob Bob 🙂

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

it kinda got real late for me last night, so this morning I went thru the menu code and body code and realize that one of my menu coding would work. so I pulled that script out of one of the earlier version of this template i was building it, and it performs like a charm. the link coding is

echo "<a href=\"".$PHP_SELF."?show=0\">Page1</a><br />";

instead of the code in the menu script above. So instead of it starring me iin the face it was trying to slap me in the face to let me know it was on my computer the whole time to be use. lol

Now it's time to start searching the forum on how to dynamically use image file for each page of this site. But not after I reboot this thing into windows to use PSP to rename the bmp files into jpg and get the pics organize.

Once again thanxs for your help LordShryku

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

I had just realize even though my navigation menu is setup correctly now I'm getting a parse error....

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /home/virtual/xxxxx/xxxx/var/www/html/test3/body.php on line 8

and the code for that line is

   if($show == 0) { include "main.php"; },

should it be something like

   if($show == 0) { include ("main.php"); },

I've tried the above and even took out the ( ) but still get the same parse errors.

I'll be back on the forum after thanksgiving. so to all the mods and visitors of PHPBuilder Forums have a Happy Thanksgiving

[LordShryku]

Nothing wrong with that line. Post first 8 lines of body.php...

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

here is the code for the first 8 lines

<?php


$main = (isset($_GET['main']))? $_GET['main'] : "main";

function storeCategory(){
  $mainContent = array(
    if($show == 0) { include "main.php"; },

[Shrike]

if($show == 0) { include "main.php"; }, //- what's that comma doing?

Ah it's an array, it's that valid code? On my install (4.3.0) it throws error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_IF, expecting ')' in c:\blah\test.php on line 4

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

that's only the first 8 lines that lord had asked for, but if you look up at the top the second set of code (body.php) in that post is the full code that works with the menu.php .

[Shrike]

Yep but an if statement inside of an array index causes an error on my version of PHP (Win/Apache/4.3.0).

function storeCategory(){
  switch($show){
    case 0:
      include "page1.php";
    case 1:
      include "page2.php";
    etc ...
  }
  return $category;
}

works 🙂

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

even though I forgotten to do that in the switch section I'm still getting "
Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in /home/virtual/xxxxx/xxxx/var/www/html/test3/body.php on line 8 "

[Shrike]

The error at line 8 is due to the fact that you can't put an if() statement inside of an array index. Change the array to a switch() loop.

[SiNiStEr_NaTiOn2]

I got it fix now. thanxs. 🙂

[Shrike]

Interesting point - you can't use an if() statement within an array index, however you can use the ternary operator:

$foo = 1;
$bar = 0;
$array = array($foo == 1 ? $foo : 0, $bar == 1 ? $bar : 1);
print_r($array);

hth 🙂