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! Quote Link to comment 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. Quote Link to comment 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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