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[wdallman]

I am using this code for a menu bar so that the "selected" id can be used by CSS for styling purposes.  I can't figure out why this code won't work...

 

<ul> 

<?

$page = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];

?>

          <? if ($page == '/index.php') { ?>

              <li><a href="/index.php" class="selected">Home</a></li>

              <li><a href="/contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>

              <li><a href="/agents.php">Meet our Agents</a></li>

              <li><a href="/claims.php">Submit a Claim</a></li>

 

              <? }

              else if ($page == '/contact.php') { ?>

              <li><a href="http://www.dallmaninsurance.com">Home</a></li>

              <li><a href="contact.php" class="selected">Contact Us</a></li>

              <li><a href="agents.php">Meet our Agents</a></li>

              <li><a href="claims.php">Submit a Claim</a></li>

             

              <? } else if ($page == '/agents.php') { ?>

              <li><a href="http://www.dallmaninsurance.com">Home</a></li>

              <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>

              <li><a href="agents.php" class="selected">Meet our Agents</a></li>

              <li><a href="claims.php">Submit a Claim</a></li>

 

              <? } else if ($page == '/claims.php') { ?>

              <li><a href="http://www.dallmaninsurance.com">Home</a></li>

              <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>

              <li><a href="agents.php">Meet our Agents</a></li>

              <li><a href="claims.php" class="selected">Submit a Claim</a></li>

             

              <? } else { ?>

              <li><a href="http://www.dallmaninsurance.com">Home</a></li>

              <li><a href="contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>

              <li><a href="agents.php">Meet our Agents</a></li>

              <li><a href="claims.php">Submit a Claim</a></li>

              <? } ?>

          </ul>

 

On the web, it gets all the way to the last "else" and outputs those list items.  In wampserver, it outputs all of the list items (so there are 5 menu bars).

 

Any ideas?

[premiso]

You may have to use stristr to check the file:

 

           <?php if (stristr($page, '/index.php')) { ?>
               <li><a href="/index.php" class="selected">Home</a></li>
               <li><a href="/contact.php">Contact Us</a></li>
               <li><a href="/agents.php">Meet our Agents</a></li>
               <li><a href="/claims.php">Submit a Claim</a></li>

               <?php }

 

I would also convert your <? to <?php for compatibility reasons, as short_tags have been defaulted to off in php 4.x I believe. But see if that works for you.

[raytri]

A (not too) manual workaround would be to simply define $page at the top of each page.

 

So on index.php, you'd write

$page = '/index.php';

 

Also, what do you do if you have subdirectories with their own "index.php" files?

[wdallman]

Thank you!  Premiso's suggestion worked. 

 

I'm using the code in an includes file, so I'm not sure that declaring $page on each site would work for me.  I'm so new to this, though, that I could be completely wrong.  Thank you so much for saving me a lot of time!

 

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