navigation help

[matchett64]

Hello

Not sure if im posting this in the rite area but here we go. I am trying to create a simple effective navigation menu for my site but i am struggling with the final coding. Im pretty new to coding.

I have managed to create my navigation sturcture using a menu structure and menu hadler page files, this is all working fine however i would like for when the link is clicked i would like it to load on the same page just in a different area of the page, leaving the navimenu ofn the page so i do not have to insert the code on each page.

I hope that makes sense.

Also i would like to hide the structure of my navigation as currerntly the click shows the full path. eg www.yourdomain.com/file/file.php, i would prfer this to be filtered is this possible?

this is my current menu handler.

<?php
function createMenu($actLink){
	include_once('menuStruct.php'); 

echo '<table class="menutable">';

// Get actual Main menu	
$actMenu='';
foreach ($mainMenu as $menu => $link) {
	if ($link == $actLink) $actMenu = $menu;		
	if (isset($subMenu[$menu])){
	   foreach ($subMenu[$menu] as $menuSub => $linkSub) {
	   	  if ($linkSub == $actLink) $actMenu = $menu;		
	   }
	}
}


foreach ($mainMenu as $menu => $link) {
	echo '<tr><td><a href="'.$link.'">'.$menu.'</a></td></tr>';
	if ( ($actMenu == $menu) && (isset($subMenu[$menu])) ){
	   foreach ($subMenu[$menu] as $menuSub => $linkSub) {
	   	  echo '<tr><td><a href="'.$linkSub.'" class="submenu">'.$menuSub.'</a></td></tr>';
	   }
	}
}

echo "</table>";
}
?>

[future448]

Well you are either going to have to include the navigation menu on each page or change your links to include a page id (or similar).

eg.
<a href="?page=new_page.php">New Page</a>

Then you want to include the content use something like:

(This is a very basic example)

$page = $_GET['page'];

include($page);

However... As you already have your navigation menu in a function why not just call the function at the start of each page?

To change the filename in the browser navigation bar then use mod_rewrite