Setting the style on the current page

[barrycorrigan]

Hi Everyone,

 

I have this small bit of PHP that when you are on a certain page it will add a class called selected

 

<?php $currentPage = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); ?>
<ul id="subnav">
   <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Wedding" id="wedding" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php?category=Wedding') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Wedding Hair</a></li>
   <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Men" id="mens-styles" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php?category=Men') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Mens Styles</a></li>
   <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Women" id="womens-styles" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php?category=Women') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Women's Styles</a></li>
   <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Salon" id="salon" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php?category=Salon') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Salon</a></li>
</ul>

 

This is not working I think it's because of the file extenstion 'gallery.php?category=Wedding' is there any way I can get this to work with these extensions

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Barry

[spiderwell]

php self would work, but that wil stop working at some point if the querystring changes, why not do a substring check for the filename , thus avoiding the querystring.

 

<li><a href="gallery.php?category=Wedding" id="wedding" <?php if (substr($currentPage ,'gallery.php')) {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Wedding Hair</a></li>   

[KevinM1]

Why not simply use $_GET['category']?

[barrycorrigan]

Hi spiderwell,

 

I tried your way and it works but it adds the selected class on all the links how does it work where it only shows on the current page.

 

Hi Nightslyr,

 

I also had a go doing it your way. I done this:

 

<?php $currentPage = basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); ?>
<ul id="subnav">
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Wedding" id="wedding" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php$_GET['category']') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Wedding Hair</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Men" id="mens-styles" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php$_GET['category']') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Mens Styles</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Women" id="womens-styles" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php$_GET['category']') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Women's Styles</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Salon" id="salon" <?php if ($currentPage == 'gallery.php$_GET['category']') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Salon</a></li>
</ul>

 

But this way give me an error. Maybe I done this wrong

 

Thanks

 

Barry

[KevinM1]

Yeah, you did it wrong

 

You simply need:

 

$current = $_GET['category'];
?>

<ul id="subnav">
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Wedding" id="wedding" <?php if ($current == 'Wedding' || $current == 'wedding') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Wedding Hair</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Men" id="mens-styles" <?php if ($current == 'Men' || $current == 'men') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Mens Styles</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Women" id="womens-styles" <?php if ($current == 'Women' || $current == 'women') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Women's Styles</a></li>
     <li><a href="gallery.php?category=Salon" id="salon" <?php if ($current == 'Salon' || $current == 'salon') {echo 'class="selected"';} ?>>Salon</a></li>
</ul>

 

You should really brush up on how to handle the superglobal arrays $_GET and $_POST, as you'll be dealing with them all the time if you stick with PHP.

[barrycorrigan]

Thanks for the advice Nightslyr,

 

That worked great! thanks for the help

 

Barry

[spiderwell]

Hi spiderwell,

 

I tried your way and it works but it adds the selected class on all the links how does it work where it only shows on the current page.

 

 

yeah i didnt look closely enough and if the script isnt changing the category is which is why my code didnt work