PHP Menu

[Anon]

Hi, I'm new to PHP and programming in general. I'm building a site using PHP and mySQL and everything's going fine exept for the menu. I want to use a simple, text-based menu which uses the <strong> tag to highlight the name of the active page. Does anyone know a simple way to do this dynamically in PHP. Thanks, Nick

[Anon]

Yes, this is easy.

Say you have four scripts:

index.php
forum.php
book.php
contact.php

Then, in the menu, you use this:

<?php

$name_of_this_file = basename($PHP_SELF);

if($name_of_this_file == "index.php"){
echo "<B><A HREF="index.php">Index</A></B>
}else{
echo "<A HREF="index.php">Index</A>
}

if($name_of_this_file == "forum.php"){
echo "<B><A HREF="forum.php">Forum</A></B>
}else{
echo "<A HREF="forum.php">Forum</B>
}

/ Same goes for any other script. You check the filename, obatined from basename($PHP_SELF) /

?>

Hope this helps

fLIPIS

[Anon]

Thanks, fLIPIS, it works a treat!! Nick

[Anon]

As a bit of an extra, particularly if you have a lot of other pages you might like to use a switch/case statement. I'm not sure which name it goes by in php because I'm a bit new to the game aswell but they tend to look a bit more tidy.

Alan

[Anon]

That's right. Al's right 'bout that. Better that writing if{} all the time. :-)

fLIPIS