Please help... (hope I don't sound THAT stupid).

nitram09

Okay I don't even know how to articulate my problem thoroughly.... but I can try.

I'm making a website, and I want a navigation bar on it without editing each individual page manually whenever I want to add a link.

How do I do this? 😕

I'm CLUELESS. I know nothing about php. :queasy:

Thanks.

IronTree

I think what you are looking for is pagination.

bpat1434

Perhaps you're also talking about a templating system so you can define one look, and then use PHP to dynamically generate the contents.

NogDog

At the simplest, you're just talking about an [man]include[/man]:

navigation.html:

<ul id="nav">
<li><a href="page1.php">Page 1</a></li>
<li><a href="page2.php">Page 2</a></li>
</ul>

any_page.php:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
// standard navigation:
include "navigation.html";
?>
<h1>Rest of Page</h1>
<p>Yadda yadda yadda....</p>
</body>
</html>

nitram09

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You don't understand how greatful I am. 😃

Now the rest I think I can figure out by myself.

hparsons

See if this helps you out.
Create three files:

one.php
two.php
nav.php

one.php should read:

two.php should read:

nav.php should read:

See if that helps you see how they work.