Includes Challenge

deejmer

Newbie here.......

Ok folks, I'll try to expalin what I am looking to do here.

The issue is my building of a website that has two distinct parts. A left navigation section, and a main content area. Sounds easy right?.....well, sort of.

Where this becomes more complicated is the way the left navigation works. There would be five 'main links'. But when I would click on link 2, I would want to go to that main page 2, and I would want the left navigation to now display the original main link 1, main link 2, (and here I would want all of the subpage links related to Main link 2, eg. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4), main link 3, and so on...... So the idea is that when the main content changes, it can dynamically update the left nav to show the appropriate links.

Currently, I have the page set up in this manner:
There is a <DIV> class and table that contains the header.
There is another <DIV> class and table that contains the footer.
There is a <DIV> class and table that contains the left navigation, and yet another that contains the main content.

I am hoping to call up normal html pages within the main content area from a subdirectory.

My client does not allow the use of frames, which is fine by me, so this is why I am using the <div> tags to achieve a similar result.

I hope I have explained this well, I was hoping someone might be able to start pointing me in the right direction (coding wise) on this. Thanks in advance folks! Post any clarifications needed to help my little newbie self.

THANKS!!!

devinemke

a very basic example:

<?php
$array = array(
	1 => array(1,2,3,),
	2 => array(1,2,3,),
	3 => array(1,2,3,)
);

if (isset($_GET['main'])) {$main = $_GET['main'];}
else {$main = 'home';}
?>

<table border="1">
	<tr valign="top">
		<td>
		Navigation:<br><br>

	<?php
	foreach ($array as $key => $value)
	{
		echo '<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?main=' . $key . '">main page #' . $key . '</a><br>';
		if ($key == $main)
		{
			foreach ($value as $sub)
			{
				echo '<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?main=' . $key . '&sub=' . $sub . '">- sub page #' . $sub . '</a><br>';
			}
		}
	}
	?>

	</td>
	<td>
	Content:<br><br>

	<?php

	if ($main == 'home') {echo 'welcome to my website';}
	else
	{
		echo 'this is the content for main page #' . $main . '<br>';
		if (isset($_GET['sub'])) {echo 'this is the content for sub page #' . $_GET['sub'];}
	}
	?>

	</td>
</tr>
</table>