A quick question

[Anon]

Heyas, I've been trying to find a way to create a table that loads its data (its a navigation area), and was wondering if that was possible with PHP? I'll be needing to change the information, and the same bar will be displayed on a lot of pages. If it is possible, I'll have to look into using PHP ^_~

Thanks for your help!

~Davin

[brandonschnell]

yes, this is very possible. it'll take a bit of work to setup, but imagine creating a nav bar on a page by typing "<? my_navbar(); ?>" in a page and seeing a table, image, or flash animation showing up. make a change in the database and instantly the users would start to see the changes on all of your pages.

[Anon]

That's exactly what I need. Could I simply make the .php3 file be a list of HTML code to display, so that it could easily fit into the table that it would be part of?

~Davin

[brandonschnell]

yep.

1) the fastest way to start getting use out of php is to rename the files to .php or .php3 (depending on your system setup).

2) create a nav bar in html (just the table to create the nav bar, nothing else) and name the file something like nav.php.

3) in your web pages, add the nav bar like so:
<?
include("nav.php");
?>

when the page loads, php will insert the contents of nav.php into the web pages.

you might want to place the nav bar file into a folder that just has common page elements.

[Anon]

Thanks bunches for the help, I got PHP installed today, and its working great!

~Davin