Hiding/Displaying Text (Universal Method)

Risingstar

I'm working on a little downloads section for my site. I have a list of the available downloads and right now I have it so that when you click on the name of the download, a box comes up with more information on the download. Only problem with it, though, is that it doesn't work with Opera which is the browser I'm trying to promote to view my site in.

Visit the downloads section in any browser other than Opera as it is now at:
http://seanstouch.com/downloads/

What I want to do with it is hide/display the boxes like I have it doing now, except use a code that will work with all browsers.

__berfuzz

Seems to be a javascript involved here. Then it's the configuration of Opera that stops it. When I turned of java/javascript it shut down. What you want is a server controlled function.

echo "<a href=\"?download=1\" >name of downlad</a>";

if ($download == 1) {echo "download info";}//See to it that you get the variable $download and this should work.

Now you have to decide how to handle $download.

Risingstar

überfuzz wrote:
Seems to be a javascript involved here. Then it's the configuration of Opera that stops it. When I turned of java/javascript it shut down. What you want is a server controlled function.
echo "<a href=\"?download=1\" >name of downlad</a>";

if ($download == 1) {echo "download info";}//See to it that you get the variable $download and this should work.
Now you have to decide how to handle $download.

Right now I have the code like this:

	<?php 
	$download=0;
	echo "<a href=" . $download=1 . " >name of downlad</a>"; ?>

<?php if ($download == 1) {
echo "download info";} ?>

and it's not exactly working... Could you explain a little more?

__berfuzz

Well it's hard for me to know how you like it. You need to get hold of $download. If you like the info to stick event if user jumps between pages on you site, you could do this:

if (!array_key_exists("d",$_SESSION)){ //set a session[d] to 0 if theres no value.
$_SESSION['d'] = 0;
}
elseif (array_key_exists("d",$_GET)){ //get session[d] if it exists
$_SESSION['d'] = $_GET['d'];
}

Somewhere you'll need a link.

echo "<a href=\"?$d=1\" >name of downlad</a>"; // the \ is to jump over ".

And some where you like to display it.

$d = $_SESSION['d']; //to get the session value on $d
if ($d == 1) {
   echo "download info";}

Risingstar

Sorry for the big bump, I just tried this out today and I got this error:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/spowpow1/public_html/test/downloads/tester.php on line 66

What does it mean and how do I fix it?

Weedpacket

It means that the second argument to the call on array_key_exists() on line 66 of tester.php was not an array or object (it should be). If there is no session, for example, $_SESSION will be null, not an array.