Posted by James Bates on 04/11/06 23:07

Hope someone can help me out with something - I'm a HTML/CSS developer
who know's a little PHP, which I use to make smaller sites
semi-dynamic, I want to expand on what i'm currently doing but need
some help.

I currently use PHP to create a single included .php file that contains
the navigation, that knows via a variable hard-coded in the XHTML page,
what section that page is from and them marks the navigation <li> with
a class the highlights it.

Here's the code I currently use

XHTML page

<?php
//Section identifier - numbered or named'
$Section="section1"
?>

Included navigation.php file

<li<?php if ($Section=="section1") echo " class=\"selected\""; ?>><a
href="#" title="">Home</a></li>

So (eventually) I get to my question... Rather than having a variable
written into the top of each page, could I create a globals.php file
that's included from everypage that knows what section that page is is
from it's parent folder.

So if I hard-coded the folders/variables in this page, then the page
recognises which folder it's from and applys that variable to the
navigation.php

Any help much appreciated

Jay

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