A trick with links

markmil2002

I am using an html document as a template for all of my php pages. On the side of the page I have a toolbar with different links. On that toolbar I want the links to load a php page and whatever link was clicked on I dont want it to be set to invisible. Is this possible?

TheDefender

Originally posted by markmil2002
I am using an html document as a template for all of my php pages. On the side of the page I have a toolbar with different links. On that toolbar I want the links to load a php page and whatever link was clicked on I dont want it to be set to invisible. Is this possible?

Explain what you mean by "I don't want it to be set to invisible". If you mean you always want the links to be there, for every page, then have a separate links.php file with your links on it, and in your main page, just include it where you want it on your page.

include('./links.php');

If this isn't what you meant, then please explain a bit better what it is you ware wanting to do.

markmil2002

I mis-worded that. What I meant was that I wanted the link to the corresponding page to be set to invisible by using php to pass a variable, or really any way possible.

TheDefender

So if I am reading you correctly, you want the link of the current page to not display based on a variable set in the URL. Is that correct?

So if your links are normally:
Home
About Us
Contact Us

Then if you are on the "contact us" section, you want it to only show:
Home
About Us

If that's the case, then say try something like this:

test.php?page=contactus

The links would go something like this:

<?php
IF(!ISSET($_GET['page']) || $_GET['page'] != "home") echo "<a href=\"test.php?page=home\">Home</a><BR />";
IF(!ISSET($_GET['page']) || $_GET['page'] != "aboutus") echo "<a href=\"test.php?page=aboutus\">About Us</a><BR />";
IF(!ISSET($_GET['page']) || $_GET['page'] != "contactus") echo "<a href=\"test.php?page=contactus\">Contact Us</a><BR />";
?>

If this isn't what you meant, I am sorry, I still don't get exactly what you are trying to do.

rachel2004

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10279593
markmil2002: I guess for TheDefender to know about your responses, you should keep them to a single thread.

TheDefender

LOL rachel2004, thanks for that... That cleared it right up for me ;-) I guess it doesn't matter to which thread the response goes, since it isn't clear either way 😃 :p 😕

Drakla

Uhuru: Captain, I'm picking up something faint on long range funny earing and I think it sounds like he wants the link to the current page automatically made inactive if it refers to the page being displayed. We encountered something like this on PHP_SELF a few episodes ago.

Kirk: Thank you lieutenant. Spock, you deal with this, I'm having a fag and a cup of tea.