Nested Menus with "selections " instead

[Anon]

Hi all,

I also have one more question. Is there any way I can do a \"nested menu\", ie \"cascading menu\" in PHP, but with menu items being selections and not URLs?

Any help will be apreciated.

[Anon]

You can use the tree class which is a part of the phplib base class distribution (phplib.netuse.de).

There is also a class called spruce_tree that one of the phplib users developed from scratch - I will post the url in a followup (I dont have it w/me right away)

[Anon]

Thanks Kartic,

The menus I am talking about are just like javascript "cascading menus" ie. "navigation menus" (or dhtml menus). The only difference is that when a user clicks on a selection, he/she should not be taken to a URL BUT have that option "selected". Just like the "PULL-DOWN" menu in plain HTML forms, ONLY NESTED (Cascading)

Anyone seen those??

Anyone ever had a need for one of those?

Thanks,

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[Anon]

Try this URL:

http://phplib.michaelchaney.com/spruce_tree/tree_demo.php

See if this is helpful and serves your purpose. You should click against the "+" for the menus to expand. You can always extend the class so that when you click on a "+", you update a session variable to store the selection made by clicking. Since every click has to go back to the server for processing by PHP, you can only do it this way.

Javascript is more 'real time' as all processing is done on the client side..so the user can select all he wants and then do a final submit for server processing.

I hope I am answering to the point!

--Kartic
PS: This will be rather nostalgic to Mainframers using a 3270 emulator :-)