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Posted by Mark Parnell on 02/06/06 02:52
Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, John Salerno
<johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> declared in alt.html:
> The goal: to have a navigation bar on all my pages that consists of
> several buttons that link to other pages on my site. For example,
> "Home", "Blog" and "Contact".
That's pretty standard. :-)
> I'd also like to use some JavaScript to get this functionality: when you
> mouseover a button, it changes (and mouseout changes it back). When you
> click on it it changes,
Why use Javascript?
http://www.designmeme.com/articles/cssrollovers/
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css_menus/list_01/
> and once you are on the new page, it is
> different from the rest to show that you are on that page.
Ah, now that's the tricky[1] bit.
> I assume that for the navigation bar, I could use a PHP include
> statement.
Assuming your web server supports PHP, yes.
> But since each page will have a slightly different nav bar
> (since the current button will be different), I don't know what to do
> from there.
<snip>
> Is there a way
> for a PHP script to figure out which page you are on,
Look into the $_SERVER variable, e.g. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].
> Would I be able to have just a single
> file with all these options, and this would be the file I include on
> each page?
Yep. brucie had a nice example of this at one stage, but it's no longer
around.
[1] Well, not really. Trickier, maybe. The trickiest part of what you
are trying to do, anyway. But still not that tricky. :-)
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Mark Parnell
I give up:
http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html
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