KaliK Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Hi Everyone, I'm semi-new to php and trying to create a site where I have only one includes file for my navigation (main_nav.inc) and 2-3 includes files (main_template.inc) that act as templates. I then call the the nav and the template in my index.php file. Everything was working fine until I decided I should use php have my links appear active depending on which page the user is on. Everything works totally fine if I insert the code for my nav (including both the html and php) into my main_template.inc file but when I make that code into it's own includes file (main_nav.inc), I get an error. I believe the issue is with using both single and double quotes in my code and wrapping that code in single quotes in my main_nav.inc file. Here is the code from my main_nav.inc file: <?php $main_nav = ' <div id="mainNav"><ul id="mainNav"> <li><a href="index.php" <?php if ($page=='index.php') { ?> class="active" <?php } ?>>Welcome</a></li> <li><a href="healthcare.php" <?php if ($page=='healthcare.php') { ?> class="active" <?php } ?>>Healthcare</a></li> </ul></div> '; // end main_nav ?> I think that since the code is wrapped in single quotes, I can only use double quotes in my code. This is the only difference I can figure out between inserting the code into the template directly (which works perfectly fine) and inserting it as a separate inc file. When I use the main_nav.inc file I get the following error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/k/a/l/kalilaks3/html/includes/main_nav.inc on line 11 I tried changing the quotes around ($page=='index.php') to ($page=="index.php") but that causes the browser to literally read the name of the link a class="active">Welcome I also tried variations of escaping quotes such as ($page==\"index.php\") and even escaping the other quotes and wrapping everything in double quotes as opposed to single quotes. Here is my code for my main_template.inc file <?php $page = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); $page_title = "Welcome"; include_once ("includes/main_nav.inc"); // sets variable include_once ("home_template.inc"); // sets all variables ?> And here is my index.php file: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta content="healthcare" name="keywords"></meta> <meta content="healthcare" name="description"></meta> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title> <link rel = "stylesheet" href = "_css/layout.css"></link> <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/script.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id = "header"><div id = "globalHeader"> <?php echo $main_nav; ?> </div></div> </body> </html> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! I would love to get this figured out so that I only have to create my navigation once for all my sites! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/230373-trouble-creating-active-links-with-php-and-inc-files/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkyIS Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 you can't put <?php tags within a string like you've got it for $main_nav = ' you'll need to perform the class/no class logic differently. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/230373-trouble-creating-active-links-with-php-and-inc-files/#findComment-1186419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaliK Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 Just in case anyone else has this problem.. I found the answer to my question from a user on another forum.. <?php $main_nav = ' <div id="mainNav"><ul id="mainNav"> <li><a href="index.php" ' . (($page=='index.php') ? 'class="active"' : '') . '>Welcome</a></li> <li><a href="healthcare.php" ' . (($page=='healthcare.php') ? 'class="active"' : '') . '>Healthcare</a></li> </ul></div> '; // end main_nav ?> This works without errors! Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/230373-trouble-creating-active-links-with-php-and-inc-files/#findComment-1186427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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