HV Menu and PHP

[lvnwfl]

Does anybody know if the HV Menu JavaScript (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/hvmenu/index.htm) can be made dynamic? What I'm trying to do is pull links from a MySQL database using PHP (both link URL's and link names) and then generate the HV Menu on the fly out of these URL's and link names.

To reduce the burden on the server, I'd probably do it in such a way so that the menu isn't generated from the database every time it's loaded on a page. The way the menu works, it is built off of a JavaScript configuration file which is put onto a page via a <script src=""> tag. So, I was thinking that the site admin could input his links using forms in a web browser and then click on a "generate menu" button that creates the JavaScript config file for the menu. This seemed like the best way to us to keep the server load to a minimum because the information from the database would only get pulled when the menu was generated.

If anybody has any experience with making this menu dynamic, I'd appreciate any info you could provide.

[leatherback]

Hi,

Not done it, but can never be hard!

Just look at the structure of the config file, and use fopen fread and fwrite to fill in the parts which need editing. (Echoout the proper configlies). Usually these files are a set of links, linksnames seperated by | or , or ;. If that is the case you can even just read the whole file, and explode each line into individual cnfigiuration leemnts.

J

[trooper]

I did something similar for one of the companies i was working for

The important thing is to get php to write the .js file that is used

So do your MYSQL search then write the .js file in EXACTLY the right format in this case the "examplemenu.js.

HTH

GM