Need Quick Explanation on Syntax Please and makeshift navtrail help

[blesseld]

Hey All,

 

Now I have no idea what I am doing to create what I want, but i'm willing to tackle it,  need just a little clarification and maybe a finger pointing in a direction.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

Here it goes.

 

I'm trying to make a makeshift nav trail to show users where they are, based on variables that are already declared.

 

  <?=$nav_trail_root?>
            <?=$nav_trail_category?>
            <?=$nav_trail_page?>

Right now I put these in my page to see if the variables were working, and they are, they return the values.

 

I tried this first

<?php 
if ($nav_trail_root == "browse-places") 
echo "<a href="#">test link</a>"
?>

 

Of course it did not work,  with a bit of research I found this:

 

<?php 
if ($nav_trail_root == "browse-places") 
echo ("<a href='#'\">".Test."</a>");
?>

 

Works to put a link in,  no idea why though.  anyone care to explain?

 

Over all now, what I am trying to achieve is creating a makeshift navtrail using the 3 variables to output their links in a line

  <?=$nav_trail_root?>
            <?=$nav_trail_category?>
            <?=$nav_trail_page?>

root is the main link, when you hover over it expands some sub categories, and hovering over those sub categories expands the end pages.

 

Any idea how I could build somthing like,

 

If <?=$nav_trail_root?> == "root nav item" ------create link, and if <?=$nav_trail_category?> == category2 ---create proper link  and last <?=$nav_trail_page?> current page ---create link.

 

No idea what direction to start.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Carlo

 

[taquitosensei]

your quoting is wrong and you're missing a semi-colon

this

echo "<a href="#">test link</a>"

should be

echo "<a href='#'>test link</a>";