Newbie PHP within PHP Question

nhall318

Hi-

I have the following code in which I need help with integrating more PHP if possible:

The variables on the top of the page in question are:

<?php $thisPage="About Us"; ?>
<?php $SecondPage="Warranties"; ?>

Here is a snippet of the code from the navigation include that I need help with:

<li <?php if ($thisPage=="About Us") echo " id=\"currentpage\""; ?>>
<a href="/aboutus/index.php">ABOUT US</a>
<?php if($thisPage=="About Us")
print("
<ul>
<li id=\"secondary\"><a href=\"Facility.php\" >Facility</a></li>
<li id=\"secondary\" ><a href=\"Warranties.php\">Warranties</a></li>
<li id=\"secondary\"><a href=\"Mission.php\" >Mission</a></li>
<li id=\"secondary\" ><a href=\"History.php\">History</a></li>
</ul>
");
?>

I want to add in the following "if" statement into the second <li> line for the Warranties link:

But since that link is already in a PHP if statement, I don't know how to format to get it to work. It's basically and if statement inside and if statement.

Nate

Rodney_H_

Is this what you are thinking, Nate:

<?php
// if primary page is about us
if ($thisPage == 'About Us') {
echo '<li id="currentpage">';
?>
<a href="/aboutus/index.php">ABOUT US</a>
<ul>
<li id="secondary"><a href="Facility.php" >Facility</a></li>
<?php
// if secondary page is warranties
if ($SecondPage == 'Warranties') {
echo '<li id="currentpage"> ';
}
// else use secondary
else {
echo '<li id="secondary">';
}
?>
<a href="Warranties.php">Warranties</a></li>
<li id="secondary"><a href="Mission.php" >Mission</a></li>
<li id="secondary"><a href="History.php">History</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<?php
}
// else this page isn't About Us
else {
echo '<li id="secondary"><a href="/aboutus/index.php">About Us</a></li>';
}
?>

nhall318

If I am understanding what you wrote, I don't think so.

Basically, 'ABOUT US' is a top level navigation, and 'Warranties' 'Mission' and 'History' are the secondary navigation below this. How my code works now, if you click on 'About Us', it then displays the 3 secondary navigation points below it (indented a little), and 'About Us' is highlighted as the current page. What I am trying to do is add that same current page functionality (highlighting the current page the user is on) to the secondary navigation, but I have to still have the original if statement to let the PHP know that it still needs to display the three navigaiton points under about us (since that is the parent link). I can get it to work by writing a bunch of repetative code, but I thought there might be an easier way if I used the similar code for the secondary link that I used on the primary (the about us) with a different variable (the $secondarypage one).

So that in the end, it would say, if $thispage=about us, show the secondary navigation and show that we are on that page, and if $secondarypage=warranites, also show that link highlighted as well (and same for the the other two secondary pages).

Thanks for your help!
Nate

Rodney_H_

I think I'm understanding you a little better:

If page is not ' About Us' , then don't show sub navigation at all, and use id of secondary for 'About Us' list element.

However, If About Us is the page at hand, show sub-navigation, and check if any of those pages are to be highlighted, too, as $SecondPage:

<?php
// if page is not About Us
if ($thisPage != 'About Us') {
// Use secondary
echo '<li id="secondary"><a href="/aboutus/index.php">ABOUT US</a></li>';
}
// else use Current
else {
echo '<li id="currentpage"><a href="/aboutus/index.php">ABOUT US</a>
<ul>';
// Warranties
if ($SecondPage == 'Warranties') {
echo '<li id="currentpage">';
}
else {
echo '<li id="secondary">';
}
?>
<a href="Warranties.php">Warranties</a></li>
<?php
// Facility
if ($SecondPage == 'Facility') {
echo '<li id="currentpage">';
} else {
echo '<li id="secondary">';
}
?>
<a href="Facility.php" >Facility</a></li>
<?php
// Mission
if ($SecondPage == 'Mission') {
echo '<li id="currentpage">';
} else {
echo '<li id="secondary">';
}
?>
<a href="Mission.php" >Mission</a></li>
<?php
// History
if ($SecondPage == 'History') {
echo '<li id="currentpage">';
} else {
echo '<li id="secondary">';
}
?>
<a href="History.php">History</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<?php
}
?>

nhall318

That worked great, thanks!

Nate

Rodney_H_

Great! Take care, Nate.