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Posted by John Salerno on 02/06/06 05:15
Mark Parnell wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
Hmm, that's interesting about CSS rollovers, but I'm not sure it works
in my case. What I plan to do is have a button image that looks pushable
(created in Photoshop with no skill on my part!), and then a separate
image that is depressed, so I think I need JS in this case to switch images.
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