multi dimensional arrays

[rakennedy75]

I am attempting to use multi-dimensional arrays to build menus. I have been able to list the menu items but I am not quite sure on how to go about adding the urls to both the main menu and submenus, any ideas on this would be helpful...

Here is the generic code using multi-dimensional arrays...

$navigation = array(
'Main1'=>array('m1_sub1', 'm1_sub2', 'm1_sub3', 'm1_sub4'),
'Main2'=>array('m2_sub1', 'm2_sub2', 'm2_sub3', 'm2_sub4'),
'Main3'=>array('m3_sub1', 'm3_sub2', 'm3_sub3', 'm3_sub4', 'm3_sub5', 'm3_sub6')
);

foreach($navigation as $arr=>$values)
{
	//echo "$arr<br>";
	echo "&bull;";
	echo "$arr<br>";
	foreach($values as $val)
	{

			echo " - ";
			echo $val;
			echo "<br>";
	}
}

Thanks for your time

[devinemke]

if the urls cannot be easily derived from the menu names then
either add another dimension to your array with the urls, or perhaps store them in a separate array with related keys:

$urls = array(
'Main1' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/main1.php',
'm1_sub1' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m1_sub1.php',
'm1_sub2' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m1_sub2',
...ect...
);

[rakennedy75]

Kind of understand what your saying I am just not sure how to implement the urls with it.

Something like this...

$navigation_=_array( 
'Main1'=>array('http://newpage.com')=>array('m1_sub1',_'m1_sub2',_'m1_sub3',_'m1_sub4'), 
'Main2'=>array('http://newpage.com')=>array('m2_sub1',_'m2_sub2',_'m2_sub3',_'m2_sub4'), 
'Main3'=>array('http://newpage.com')=>array('m3_sub1',_'m3_sub2',_'m3_sub3',_'m3_sub4',) 
); 

will this work for the main links?

Sorry still a little confused on the multi-dimensional array logic

[devinemke]

as i mentioned before, if the url can be easily derived from the menus name then that is the way to go. can you give an example of what the actual url's will look like for each menu?

[rakennedy75]

Sorry I mis-understood you. Actually, I will be using this for multiple apps. Some I can use the name and some I won't so I guess the best approach would be to assume the url will be different than the main nav name as well as the sub nav names. Can I do it that way?

[devinemke]

if you want to store the absolute URL's then you could do:

$navigation = array(
'Main1' => array('m1_sub1', 'm1_sub2', 'm1_sub3'),
'Main2' => array('m2_sub1', 'm2_sub2', 'm2_sub3')
);

$urls = array(
'Main1' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/main1',
'm1_sub1' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m1_sub1',
'm1_sub2' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m1_sub2',
'm1_sub3' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m1_sub3',
'Main2' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/main2',
'm2_sub1' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m2_sub1',
'm2_sub2' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m2_sub2',
'm2_sub3' => 'http://www.rakennedy75.com/m2_sub3',
);

foreach ($navigation as $key => $value)
{
	echo '&bull; <a href="' . $urls[$key] . '">' . $key . '</a><br>';
	foreach ($value as $sub_value)
	{
		echo ' - <a href="' . $urls[$sub_value] . '">' . $sub_value . '</a><br>';
	}
}

[rakennedy75]

Thanks, that was more than helpful, I appreciate your time on this.