[RESOLVED] .htaccess rules interfering with navigation menu

Maharg105

Hey Guys,

I was wondering if you might be able to lend me a quick hand with this problem.

I have a navigation menu that uses the following code to highlight the current page

<li <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'press.php')) echo 'value="1"';?>>

But I am using htaccess rewrite rules to format variables being passed to my product gallery. So item.php?id=12 is changed to /item/112/products.php, for example.

But any page where these rewrite rules are in place, the navigation menu does not highlight the selected page. Whether I use;

<li <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'products.php')) echo 'value="1"';?>>

<li <?php if (strpos($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'item.php')) echo 'value="1"';?>>

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help,

bradgrafelman

Echo out $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] from one of the .htaccess rewritten pages - what value do you get?

Maharg105

Hi Brad,

I'd echoed out that variable previously, as I thought this might be the problem. But on the rewritten page I get item.php as expected, so I couldn't figure out what was causing it.

Thanks again,

bradgrafelman

What's the full string you get back?

Maharg105

If I echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] on products.php I get /shannonhazell/products.php if I echo the same variable on /collection/Brass/products.php I get /shannonhazell/products.php.

But in the first instance the navigation menu works as expected, but in the second instance it doesn't

Thanks,

bradgrafelman

Did you view the source of the HTML page to see if the LI tags were being output correctly?

Sounds more like a CSS issue, since the strings are the same. Did you perhaps use a relative path to your CSS file (which would be broken when you use a different URL)?

Maharg105

Hey Brad,

Once again, you've sorted it for me. Thanks so much for that. It turned out that I hadn't provided an absolute path for one of my javascripts.

Thanks,