Highlight Current Page in Navigation - Problem!

matthewbutt

Hi all,

Firstly I am new to the PHP Builder forums, so hello and I hope you are all well.

In short, I am simply making my navigation into a standard PHP include. I have completed this step successfully. Where I am struggling is with highlighting the current page/section in the navigation. This is what I have coded:

On the Main pages:

<?php define('page_name', 'servers'); ?>

On the Navigation Include:

class="<?php echo page_name == 'servers' ? 'top_link_highlighted' : 'top_link'; ?>"

So basically I am trying to swap the defined class from 'top_link' to 'top_link_highlighted' if the current page is called 'servers'. The trouble is that it is using the top_link class when it should be using the top_link_highlighted class on the relevenat page/section.

Any help would be gratefully received as I don't seem to be making any progress!
Kind regards,

Matthew

halojoy

I tested your code.
It works alright.
Displays class="top_link_highlighted"

There must be some other reason to your problem.

matthewbutt

Hi there,

Thanks for confirming that, much appreciated. Any ideas on where I should start looking as it is half working by displaying the class as top_link :S
Kind regards,

Matthew

halojoy

The most important is that you get correct value into 'page_name'
So, I would start looking there.

Maybe you should not use define('page_name', 'xxxxxxx')
but simply use a normal variable $pagename

define() uses constants.
This means they are constant,
and you can not change such a constant value in your script.

matthewbutt

Hi there,

Thanks for getting back to me. I have removed all the code from the include and put the whole menu back into the main page and it works fine. So as soon as it is moved out into a Include it stops working. Hopefully this has narrowed it down a bit . . . !

Matthew

matthewbutt

Hi All,

Apologies to bring this issue back up but I am still experiencing difficulties.

Just to recap, the code works perfectly when the menu is coded on the pages directly, but as soon as it is put into an Include the navigation section highlighting stops functioning.

Any help would be very gratefully received.
Kind regards,

Matthew