Changing link colors on page request

Anon

I have been debating this topic for awhile now and have decided to give it a try and see what I can come up with.

I am using a site with a template layout. The menu shows up on every page and I am using the page.php?subpage=content to change the information of the requested page.

I have read in a number of places about website designs that I should never link back to the same page I am viewing.

This post is to get some suggestions on what the best way is to disable the link or change the color of that one link depending on what page is being viewed.

I was thinking of if statements but wouldn't that mean I would need to write one per link. I was hoping there might be a better way to do this

Thanks

amcgrath

Well, assuming you run a loop to generate your navigation link, you could compare that value to the current page being viewed and highlight accordningly. Doesnt seem to hard...

Anon

I went ahead and tried the if else statements.

If page = current then display text
else display text that is linked

I did this for them all and used style sheets to change the colors.

It seems like a fair bit of code to do this and not sure how much it will slow the site down to read all the extra lines but it is working at the moment

thanks

amcgrath

Yea but why not like I suggest? For instance,

$nav_links["Here"] = "/here.php";
$nav_links["There"] = "/there.php";

.....

while(list($title,$url) = @each($nav_links)) {
if ($title == $page) {

// dowhatever you want to when they are on this page

} else {

echo "<a href=$url>$title</a>";

}

It's a little sloppy but you should get the idea....