dynamic menu link color changer on one page.

spookztar

Hi guys,

New user, glad to be here. I have one issue i need a little assist on. I am using the PHP active link color change-hack from a list apart. The code is an instance like this repeated once for every link to a subpage in the menu:

<li<?php if ($thisPage=="index")
   echo " class=\"currentpage\""; ?>>
     <a href="index.php">START</a></li>

Each subpage has a variable attached to it as $currentpage="your-pagename-here" so it can be uniquely identified, The above code checks the value of $currentpage and changes the color on the active site subpage link in the menu before the content is sent to the requester. Thats all good and well, if you have a separate html page that loads fresh for each and every subpage on your site.

My question is this: How do I do this, if I only have one html page, and dynamically swap the the content of the centercolumn into that same page?

Thanx for reading my post, hope you can help out.

C-ya.

spookztar

Nobody?

Mgccl

according to your title, you just want a random Dynamic Menu that changes color....
well:
Make an array contains the colors you want
$color[] = 'FFFFF';
$color[] = '00FFF';
random chose one
$n = array_rand($color);
put that one on the HTML file that will be genorated
$color[$n]

halojoy

.
maybe I have changed too much of your code,
but something like this would work

<?php

$curr_page = "news.php";
$pages = array( 'index.php', 'news.php', 'about.php', 'links.php' );

foreach( $pages as $thisPage ) {

  if ($thisPage==$curr_page) {
    if ($thisPage=="index.php")
        echo "<li><a class=\"currentpage\" href=\"$thisPage\">START</a></li>\n";
    else
        echo "<li><a class=\"currentpage\" href=\"$thisPage\">$thisPage</a></li>\n";
    }
  else {
    if ($thisPage=="index.php")
        echo "<li><a class=\"page\" href=\"$thisPage\">START</a></li>\n";
    else
        echo "<li><a class=\"page\" href=\"$thisPage\">$thisPage</a></li>\n";
  }

}

?>
<style type="text/css">
a.page          {color: blue;}
a.currentpage {color: black;}
</style>